APPARITIONS PROJECT
Collection Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Acquired 2023
Collecton Mills College Art Museum. Acquired 2004
The Apparitions project had its genesis in butterfly and moth specimens collected during the Victorian era. The specimens’ vulnerability, the effects of time, and the folly of human destruction as a condition for observing nature led to themes of fragility, loss, and mortality in the work. Using the photogravure process, the artist rendered each butterfly using black ink on black paper, so they would appear to emerge or disappear into the paper depending on vantage point, creating an ambiguous state between presence and absence.
APPARITIONS: Papilio alcibiades, 1999; photogravure; image size: 12 x 12 inches; paper size: 20-1/2 x 20 inches; edition of 20.
APPARITIONS: Unidentified Specimen #1, 1999; photogravure; image size: 12 x 18 inches; paper size: 20-1/2 x 26 inches; edition of 20.
APPARITIONS: Cymothoe cyceades, 1999; photogravure; image size: 11 x 15 inches; paper size: 19-1/2 x 23 inches; edition of 20.
APPARITIONS: Charaxes numenes, 1999; photogravure; image size: 11-1/4 x 17-1/4 inches; paper size: 19-3/4 x 25-1/4 inches; edition of 20.
APPARITIONS: Euphaedra neophron, 1999; photogravure; image size: 10 x 13 inches; paper size: 18-1/2 x 21 inches; edition of 20.
APPARITIONS: Charaxes angusta (cibratus?), 1999; photogravure; image size: 11 x 14 inches; paper size: 19-1/2 x 22 inches; edition of 20.