This is a story of natural history.

Ornithoptera Alexandrae, or the Queen Alexandra Birdwing Butterfly, is the largest butterfly species in the world. The females are larger than the males. They were so rare and so elusive that Albert Stewart Meek shot the first collected specimens down from the canopies with a shotgun.

Hence, 'butterflyshot'.

The juxtaposition between something so fragile and something so violent. The deep thoughts it provokes and the statement it makes about humanity.

The butterfly effect it has catalised through time.

Perhaps I am both the butterfly and the man who shot it.