The Butterfly Eater is a painting by Mandem which was uploaded on September 5th, 2017.
Title
The Butterfly Eater
Artist
Mandem
Medium
Painting
Description
We imagine them frozen with Victorian specimen pins or fluttering dreamlike over flowers. But the Morpho butterfly is a scavenger, an eater of the dead. It feeds on carcasses and fungi, spreading the spores of mushrooms across the jungle, as integral to decay and death as to pollination. And then there is the child and the digital and the sweep of posthumanity erasing the forest forever.
And the peacekeeper said: "I dreamed the child stained irridescent, photonic nanostructures blurred its lips, its mouth full of wings, and the jungle of wires and winds behind it, silent devouring the psychopomps. I dreamed the child and its eyes the blue of biomimetic currency."
Uploaded
September 5th, 2017
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