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Nari Ward — Butterfly Flame
Nari Ward

Butterfly Flame

Nari Ward's *Butterfly Flame* is a striking assemblage that combines delicate colour pencil markings with wire intricately worked onto a butterfly net. The piece draws a provocative tension between fragility and entrapment, suggesting both the beauty and vulnerability of captured life. Ward's layering of materials transforms a mundane object into a meditation on freedom, transformation, and the forces that seek to contain it.

Medium
colour pencil and wire on butterfly net

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April 11, 2019

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Nari Ward, Butterfly Flame

Nari Ward's *Butterfly Flame* is a striking assemblage that combines delicate colour pencil markings with wire intricately worked onto a butterfly net. The piece draws a provocative tension between fragility and entrapment, suggesting both the beauty and vulnerability of captured life. Ward's layering of materials transforms a mundane object into a meditation on freedom, transformation, and the forces that seek to contain it.

Medium
colour pencil and wire on butterfly net
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Color Pencil, American, Mixed Media, Butterfly, Wire Art, Delicate, Whimsical, Colorful, Figurative, Contemporary

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