APPARITIONS

Collection Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Acquired in 2023.
Collection Mills College Art Museum. Acquired in 2004.

Apparitions is a series of photogravure prints inspired by a collection of butterfly and moth specimens from the turn of the century. The vulnerability of the specimens, the effects of time, and the folly of human destruction as a condition for observing nature led to themes of fragility, loss, and mortality within the work. Each butterfly is rendered in black ink on black paper so that, from different viewpoints, they appear to emerge or vanish into the paper, creating an ambiguous state between presence and absence.