Diptych of Limited Edition Prints from The Butterfly Hunter

Ada Print + Nixon Print
A diptych of two prints from The "Butterfly Hunter"
(Glass wing specimen photographed on the scrap of American newspaper it was wrapped in when caught in 1971 in Colombia and Golden specimen photographed on the scrap of Indonesian newspaper it was wrapped in when caught in 1970 in Sulawesi)
Edition of 40, each signed and numbered by the artist
Archival pigment print on acid free paper
11x10 inches (image printed true to scale of specimen)
Ready to be framed either floated or matted

You can learn more about this project here:
https://www.kleamckenna.com/THE-BUTTERFLY-HUNTER
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In The Butterfly Hunter Klea McKenna creates a photographic archive of her father's butterfly collection, hunted and preserved nearly forty years ago. The images display delicate butterflies framed by faded and stained newspapers, magazines, letters, and manuscripts—materials McKenna's father used as envelopes to hold his findings. The headlines and fragmented news stories paint a conflicted portrait of the era. Each image holds narratives that are at once personal and historical. McKenna has used this unique material to create a moving and relevant piece.
- Adrienne Skye Roberts, writer and curator

A remarkable visual meditation on time, loss, and the culture of nature, “The Butterfly Hunter” is also a cool but intimate engagement with Terence McKenna's fanatical romanticism. It is a mark of Klea McKenna's courage that she has taken on the legacy of a man so concerned with his own legacy, and a mark of her success that she does it with such candor and care. This beautifully produced book is, as Terence himself would deeply appreciate, an artifact of wonder.
- Erik Davis, author of The Visionary State & Techgnosis