Decay and Delicacy

Decay and Delicacy explores the quiet beauty of abandoned spaces, walls where wallpaper peels like skin, rot-softened floors, and corners where mold slowly creeps in. These places hold echoes of the past, where memories linger like ghosts, fading but never truly gone, and can never be reclaimed exactly as it was. I use butterflies as my subjects, drawn to their symbolism of fragility, transformation, and the fleeting nature of time. Though I never knew the lives they lived, I preserve them as a form of remembrance, placing them in these deteriorating rooms to create a dialogue between what was and what remains. Time is relentless; it devours all things, yet even within this decay, there is still a beauty. Through this series, I aim to capture the tension between loss and preservation, calling for reflection on what is left behind, what is forgotten, and what continues to endure.