Butterflies

Butterflies is a multi-media video + sound installation created by artist Ling DeBellis and composer Antonio Sanz Escallón. Butterflies is a three-part, experimental film that explores ideas related to growth and development. The installation centers around DeBellis' semi-autobiographical abstraction in response to maturity, femininity, and changing perspectives over the past several years while living in Houston.

I. WOMB/COCOON

II. Metamorphosis

III. The Freedom of Movement

Metamorphosis features:

Wen-Hsiu Angela Lai, flute

Katherine Butler, violin

Lena-Marie Stoger, violin

Søren Lorentzen, viola

Maximus Gurath, cello

Made with support from:

The Women's Foundation of Minnesota, Young Women's Initiative of MN Innovator Grants 2021 and 2022

Sleepy Cyborg Gallery, Houston TX

Rice University Visual & Dramatic Arts

Rice University President's Programming Fund

Butterflies premiered the evening of Jan 20, 2023 at Sleepy Cyborg Gallery in Houston TX.

Butterflies was screened the evening of March 29, 2023 at Blaffer Arts Museum in Houston, TX.