The imagos are photographs of butterflies digitally fused with female genitalia. Each specimen and blended genitalia differs from the others. Each fused genital and butterfly, are of the same country of origin. The names relate to the scientific etymology of the butterfly. Imago, which, in Latin, means an idealized mental image of the other or the self, also means insect in its final adult stage, winged and sexually mature.

These pieces portray the body–object relation, the sexualized woman who can be transformed into an object, used and governed by money and collectible items in a culture that objectifies people and personifies objects. This project will put an image to the metamorphosis of female sexual organs into butterflies, recalling specimens intended for anatomic or scientific study which the viewer beholds with an intent look, free from the moral prejudice of a society where the most fragile and desirable parts of a woman’s body are fetishized or, in contrast, rendered inaccessible.
The Imagos prints have two presentations. The first is on large format, color-Chromogenic prints. (40 x 35 in.) The second presentation of the Imagos are three-dimensional photographs, archival digital prints on cotton paper contoured cut-out (20 x 20 in. approx). Each Imago butterfly is mounted inside of an archival museum entomological wood box with glass, designed for the storage of specimens.