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In a remote village in Nepal, I was trying to take pictures of the butterflies. It was windy and the butterflies were constantly flying. I was on my knees, patiently waiting for them to settle on the flowers. This boy was curiously watching me doing this. After a while he got frustrated, got up and moved his hand swiftly in the air to catch a butterfly, like a magician. He walked up to me with the butterfly and asked - is this what you want?
I requested him to let it go, thank God, it was still alive.
Who want's to be in our gang? Since coming home from New York we've been working on a project organised by Abe Lincoln Jr. It's for this exhibition where we were asked to come up with our own biker gang. www.girlsbike.com/angels/.
Will post Pictoplasma and New York photos soon.
This view of the March to October 2022 exhibition of work by UK-based artist Yinka Shonibare has "Butterfly Kid (Boy) IV" from 2019 in the foreground and the ensemble piece "Moving Up" (2021) in the background. As with all great art, there are many dimensions to engage the viewer: the craftsmanship of technique, the composition or design concept brought into completed form, and the ideas both surface and ones less obvious or hinted at, too. Some of the viewer response will be at a non-verbal level, too: visual thrill, emotional responses, initial impact giving way to other feelings as the person gets acquainted with the piece, and other reactions rippling under the surface of the mind in the currents of symbolism and memory and subconscious points of reference.
What seems to be a family of two adults and child are dressed in the best clothes and carry minimal belongings as they climb to something they hope will be an improvement in their life chances. Their heads are represented with globes in color tones indicating an overheated (browns, oranges, yellows) planet. The fact that the luxurious case of steps turns out to be a dead end that leads nowhere is slightly ominous, though. Or could this be a physical expression of the saying, "stairway to heaven," invisible to ordinary eyes but bridged by faith.
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Title - "Butterfly Boy"
Artist - Harry Fladd
Date - 15 April, 2010
Medium - Wikki Stix
Artist's Notes - "He has wings and he flies around and he has no arms, but he has a face."
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