Looking for inspiration pretty late into the start of our new project 'PLOT' i haven't got off to a very good start, i haven't managed to come across anything that inspires me! Very frustrating, i was however very interested in Damien Hirst's Butteflies.
'The pressure group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) called him a "sadist". Dawn Carr, Peta's European director, said: "One has to wonder if Hirst was the sort of demented child who would pull the wings off flies for fun. He certainly has become that sort of an adult. Butterfly wings are beautiful on a butterfly but tearing small creatures to bits is not art, it's sadism."
Hirst has long been obsessed with butterflies as a metaphor for mortality. Twelve years ago, when he was barely known outside the confines of an impoverished circle of artists in the East End of London, he filled a gallery with hundreds of live tropical butterflies, some of them spawned from chrysalises on monochrome canvasses hung from the wall. In And Out of Love is now seen as one of his seminal early works.'
