Blair Aiken

Demensions: 44”x 70”

Panels: 3

Medium: Watercolour, ink, carbon nanotubes

Description:

Butterfly hunting is a conflicted activity, a desire for beauty and small acts of repeated violence ( killing butterflies), both justified by science. Preserving something by taking its life.

The hunter is truly outgunning the problem, in this work which is meant to call the question to mind that in science , "Should we just because we can? I believe it is important to protect science, and society, without loss if possible., and to think through discoveries carefully, and hoe they effect us all.