Butterfly

One summer, in the attic of my grandmother’s old house, I found a volume of poems by Joseph Brodsky. After reading several poems, I got to “Fly from here, white moth.” I felt that the topic was extremely close to me. I took out my medium format film camera, called my daughter, and shot a visual poem in which I reflected on human freedom and life. 

In this project I explore the desire to preserve freedom and the true nature of human existence, not subject to the restrictions and attachments that often arise in life. The limits in which we sometimes find ourselves in life are often both those set by others and our own limitations. My heroes act as butterflies, striving to unite their physical and spiritual states. 

The multiple exposure technique helped blur the line between the physical world and the spiritual. The film emphasized dust and scratches as artifacts of the physical world. The long exposure conveyed the ephemerality of what was happening. With the help of leporello, the viewer can add up their own worlds and create their own ending. The fabric cover adds tactility and references a warm past. Black and white photographs on one side of the leporello are associated with the perception of the departing, while color photographs on the other side create the flight of a moth into the future. By connecting the two sides together, at this junction I create a gap between the real and the imaginary world.

Book size 10×15 cm 

Leporello 

15 pages 

Limited edition of 75 copies (signed and numbered) 

Each book is completely assembled by hand 

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