Butterfly, Metal is a digital series born from an experimental revisit of elements from the artist's final work of 2022. Through layered light textures and metallic rendering, these twin images explore contrast—light vs. shadow, fragility vs. permanence.

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What began as a spontaneous manipulation of existing imagery evolved into a meditative study on transformation and duality. The butterfly, long a symbol of change, is suspended here in luminous stillness—captured not as a living subject, but as a fossilized trace within digital matter. These works reflect Nathan Cook’s ongoing interest in process, contrast, and discovering the unexpected through iteration.