MELODY WOODNUTT | 'Night Blooming Branches' | 2025 | Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Hemp paper / from cropped 16mm film still Daniel Beeron Thus began the Ulysses Butterfly

Thus began the Ulysses Butterfly cycle of starting from an egg

Being able to share with others

life and death" and it is inappropriate to discuss it further here

Puyenu muynu ngath palanu bubu timitim waru kazika

Growing up on this island in the early to late 1970s these sightings were always common during mango season

MELODY WOODNUTT | 'Night Blooming Branches' | 2025 | Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Hemp paper / from cropped 16mm film still Daniel Beeron Thus began the Ulysses Butterfly"'The Apparition' is a conjuring and ascension of spirit. It is a futile attempt to build her grandfather Franks unfinished boat which he was making out of love for his wife. Upon Frank's death, the massive boat frame stood as a 17m long, 9m wide bare skeleton unfinished for 40 years with no hull, having never seen the sea. The artwork thus becomes the boat's spectral fiction and a ghostly apparition. The Apparition conjures a siren's call from beyond