A SERIES BY ERINA VALE

Madame Butterfly

The version where she does not wait.

In the familiar story, a woman waits beside a harbour and is remembered for waiting.

Here, she crosses. Memory, love, and consequence remain, but so does her ability to choose.

Silk appears beside concrete. An obi unfolds in a hotel room. A sleeve moves through a station, harbour, museum, or wet street. The kimono carries an origin into a place where its meaning may change.

The butterfly becomes the maker of the image, and the woman inside it remains unfinished.