Lord of the Butterflies
Vanessa Mayoraz and Ashton Phillips

June 6th — June 28th
Opening Reception: Saturday June 6th 7-10pm

Born from a place of seeing and mourning, Vanessa Mayoraz and Ashton Phillips engage in a visible and overlapping consideration of present day realities through color, sound, video, sculpture, and vivid imagery. When logic and fact aren’t enough to shift the tide of oppressive contemporary materialities and power structures, they each turn to poetry and abstraction as a way to speak and respond. Using the gallery space of Persons Unknown to create text and conversation through installation, Lord of the Butterflies questions and examines the fragility of human structures and systems and instead invests in the creation of poetic ecosystems, embracing pressure as a generative force. Through this communal space Mayoraz and Phillips invite the viewer to participate in their simultaneous contemplation and lean into the speculative unfoldings between grief and hope.

You and I are always going to fight
for love.

Andrea Gibson
Lord of the Butterflies