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Richard Butchins

@richardbutchins

artist-filmmaker trying to comprehend the incomprehensible. Have you noticed the world makes no sense? #autistic and all that stuff...

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A contemporary vanitas — a meditation on mortality, medicine, and the fragile space between care and control. The squirrel is dead, but not decayed. I wanted stillness, not rot. A body caught mid-transition. Its face, magnified under glass, insists we lo… instagr.am/p/DI6rUfftcLb/

A contemporary vanitas — a meditation on mortality, medicine, and the fragile space between care and control. The squirrel is dead, but not decayed. I wanted stillness, not rot. A body caught mid-transition. Its face, magnified under glass, insists we lo… instagr.am/p/DI6rUfftcLb/
Richard Butchins (@richardbutchins) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A contemporary vanitas — a meditation on mortality, medicine, and the fragile space between care and control. The squirrel is dead, but not decayed. I wanted stillness, not rot. A body caught mid-transition. Its face, magnified under glass, insists we look. Too closely. Like sc…

A contemporary vanitas — a meditation on mortality, medicine, and the fragile space between care and control. The squirrel is dead, but not decayed. I wanted stillness, not rot. A body caught mid-transition. Its face, magnified under glass, insists we look. Too closely. Like sc…
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This photograph is part of a new series, taken while I take a break from my more complex still lifes. I'm using plants to evoke tension between form, impermanence, and mood. There’s a nod to Mapplethorpe’s sculptural clarity, but I let the image slip more into shadow and atmo…

This photograph is part of a new series, taken while I take a break from my more complex still lifes. 

I'm using plants to evoke tension between form, impermanence, and mood. There’s a nod to Mapplethorpe’s sculptural clarity, but I let the image slip more into shadow and atmo…
Richard Butchins (@richardbutchins) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This photograph is part of a new series, taken while I take a break from my more complex still lifes. I'm using plants to evoke tension between form, impermanence, and mood. There’s a nod to Mapplethorpe’s sculptural clarity, but I let the image slip m… instagr.am/p/DJMzuG8tpVN/

This photograph is part of a new series, taken while I take a break from my more complex still lifes. 

I'm using plants to evoke tension between form, impermanence, and mood. There’s a nod to Mapplethorpe’s sculptural clarity, but I let the image slip m… instagr.am/p/DJMzuG8tpVN/
Richard Butchins (@richardbutchins) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is happening again - Jack in the Green in Hastings - rather like this fine fellow - and the morris dancers of course #jackinthegreen #hastings #folklore #maydayparade

This is happening again - Jack in the Green in Hastings - rather like this fine fellow - and the morris dancers of course 

#jackinthegreen #hastings #folklore #maydayparade
Richard Butchins (@richardbutchins) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is happening again - Jack in the Green in Hastings - rather like this fine fellow - and the morris dancers of course #jackinthegreen #hastings #folklore #maydayparade instagr.am/p/DJPZhwGNxMp/

This is happening again - Jack in the Green in Hastings - rather like this fine fellow - and the morris dancers of course 

#jackinthegreen #hastings #folklore #maydayparade instagr.am/p/DJPZhwGNxMp/
Richard Butchins (@richardbutchins) 's Twitter Profile Photo

What began as a botanical study became something else entirely. The dry, curling leaves and dense crown of silky hairs took on the uncanny form of a moth or beetle mid-metamorphosis. One central leaf resembles an emerging limb. The longer I looked, the m… instagr.am/p/DJWapm6NLTl/

What began as a botanical study became something else entirely. The dry, curling leaves and dense crown of silky hairs took on the uncanny form of a moth or beetle mid-metamorphosis. One central leaf resembles an emerging limb. The longer I looked, the m… instagr.am/p/DJWapm6NLTl/
Richard Butchins (@richardbutchins) 's Twitter Profile Photo

What began as a botanical study became something else entirely. The dry, curling leaves and dense crown of silky hairs took on the uncanny form of a moth or beetle mid-metamorphosis. One central leaf resembles an emerging limb. The longer I looked, the more the subject felt tra…

What began as a botanical study became something else entirely. The dry, curling leaves and dense crown of silky hairs took on the uncanny form of a moth or beetle mid-metamorphosis. One central leaf resembles an emerging limb. The longer I looked, the more the subject felt tra…
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Popery. There’s a new Pope, so I made a picture. I’m not religious—never have been—but religious symbolism keeps turning up in my work. Maybe because Christianity is so etched into Western culture, whether we like it or not, it’s strange, really, that so… instagr.am/p/DJi5Y5TNTGy/

Popery. There’s a new Pope, so I made a picture. I’m not religious—never have been—but religious symbolism keeps turning up in my work. Maybe because Christianity is so etched into Western culture, whether we like it or not, it’s strange, really, that so… instagr.am/p/DJi5Y5TNTGy/
Richard Butchins (@richardbutchins) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The bare bear. A still life assembled like evidence. Every object here is staged, clamped, or lit for inspection — from the crucifix under glass to the doll-head candle, burning through the skull like an accidental halo. The bear is absurd, medicalised, tender. Even the flowers…

The bare bear. A still life assembled like evidence. Every object here is staged, clamped, or lit for inspection — from the crucifix under glass to the doll-head candle, burning through the skull like an accidental halo. The bear is absurd, medicalised, tender. Even the flowers…
Richard Butchins (@richardbutchins) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The bare bear. A still life assembled like evidence. Every object here is staged, clamped, or lit for inspection — from the crucifix under glass to the doll-head candle, burning through the skull like an accidental halo. The bear is absurd, medicalised, … instagr.am/p/DJ7H3KFtnB4/

The bare bear. A still life assembled like evidence. Every object here is staged, clamped, or lit for inspection — from the crucifix under glass to the doll-head candle, burning through the skull like an accidental halo. The bear is absurd, medicalised, … instagr.am/p/DJ7H3KFtnB4/
Richard Butchins (@richardbutchins) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A crab squats on the table, surrounded by surgical clamps, beeswax candles, and wilting fruit—an uncanny still life staged for inspection or reverence. Above, 1970s prosthetic hand attachments hover like officiants, frozen in gestures of obsolete precision. The scene recalls R…

A  crab squats on the table, surrounded by surgical clamps, beeswax candles, and wilting fruit—an uncanny still life staged for inspection or reverence. Above, 1970s prosthetic hand attachments hover like officiants, frozen in gestures of obsolete precision. The scene recalls R…
Richard Butchins (@richardbutchins) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A crab squats on the table, surrounded by surgical clamps, beeswax candles, and wilting fruit—an uncanny still life staged for inspection or reverence. Above, 1970s prosthetic hand attachments hover like officiants, frozen in gestures of obsolete precis… instagr.am/p/DKg2R1otIRc/

A  crab squats on the table, surrounded by surgical clamps, beeswax candles, and wilting fruit—an uncanny still life staged for inspection or reverence. Above, 1970s prosthetic hand attachments hover like officiants, frozen in gestures of obsolete precis… instagr.am/p/DKg2R1otIRc/
Richard Butchins (@richardbutchins) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Under the lens, this protea mutates—no longer plant, not yet creature. Its curling yellow filaments suggest antennae, limbs, or sensory feelers reaching out in all directions, as if mid-transformation. The symmetry feels too precise to be natural, too organic to be artificial. …

Under the lens, this protea mutates—no longer plant, not yet creature. Its curling yellow filaments suggest antennae, limbs, or sensory feelers reaching out in all directions, as if mid-transformation. The symmetry feels too precise to be natural, too organic to be artificial. …
Richard Butchins (@richardbutchins) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Under the lens, this protea mutates—no longer plant, not yet creature. Its curling yellow filaments suggest antennae, limbs, or sensory feelers reaching out in all directions, as if mid-transformation. The symmetry feels too precise to be natural, too or… instagr.am/p/DK1vP4lN_Ae/

Under the lens, this protea mutates—no longer plant, not yet creature. Its curling yellow filaments suggest antennae, limbs, or sensory feelers reaching out in all directions, as if mid-transformation. The symmetry feels too precise to be natural, too or… instagr.am/p/DK1vP4lN_Ae/
Richard Butchins (@richardbutchins) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Riffing off Leonardo’s “Lady with an Ermine,” this is no polite Renaissance homage. Instead, “Girl with Lobster” swaps out innocence for unease—a pearl-draped figure cradling a lobster with the poise of an accidental femme fatale. The lush still life o… instagr.am/p/DLrmRM_t_7y/

Riffing off Leonardo’s “Lady with an Ermine,” this is no polite Renaissance homage. Instead, “Girl with Lobster” swaps out innocence for unease—a pearl-draped figure cradling a lobster with the poise of an accidental femme fatale.

 The lush still life o… instagr.am/p/DLrmRM_t_7y/
Richard Butchins (@richardbutchins) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Riffing off Leonardo’s “Lady with an Ermine,” this is no polite Renaissance homage. Instead, “Girl with Lobster” swaps out innocence for unease—a pearl-draped figure cradling a lobster with the poise of an accidental femme fatale. The lush still life of pomegranates, crab, an…

Riffing off Leonardo’s “Lady with an Ermine,” this is no polite Renaissance homage. Instead, “Girl with Lobster” swaps out innocence for unease—a pearl-draped figure cradling a lobster with the poise of an accidental femme fatale.

 The lush still life of pomegranates, crab, an…