This photograph does not seem to be about this girl as a person or how she lives. It is like she is in the middle of a daydream. She is in her own mind. She is separated from the world around her creating her own in her head. The butterfly adds a sense of playfulness and alludes to the idea that she may be daydreaming about things that aren’t real. The butterfly also represents the passage of time.
And yet, her neutral expression and limp pose suggest darkness, voyeurism, death. How do we reconcile youth and death, the celebration of private thought and the intrusiveness of photography?
The photograph pushes me off balance. In the contradictory implications it forces me to ask questions I might not want to know the answer to.
Photograph by Jocelyn Lee
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