The Butterfly Case is a series of mixed media and interdisciplinary artworks merging religious elements with components of entomological displays. The intent of these artworks is to bring attention to the chronic social apathy, racism, and classism prevalent towards minorities, migrants, and the unhoused. Social tribulations which shouldn't be common given the number of devoted individuals who intensely follow religious writings full of altruistic and humanistic intents. To convey this disparity, the artworks from The Butterfly Case pulls from the macabre reality of entomological display cases where the pinned carcasses of magnificent creatures are kept behind glass solely to decorate living spaces. And much like these insects, inert, unable to invade our surroundings, or touch us with their foreign bodies many people would rather experience the presence of the "others" at a distance behind physical barriers, far away and only thought our media screens, or in certain times just plain dead.
