The Butterfly Effect
This interactive artwork is called ‘The Butterfly Effect’, the concept that small causes can have large effects.
The name, coined by mathematician and meteorologist Edward Lorenz in the 1960s, is derived from the example that a tornado could be caused by as minor a perturbation as the flapping of the wings of a distant butterfly several weeks earlier. On each paper butterfly viewers help to create the artwork by writing a message pledging one small change they could make in their life.
The artist looks at how taken together, combined small personal changes could have a profound effect.
St Albans Cathedral – 2021
Part of the “Life” Son-et-Lumiere by Luxmuralis
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Salisbury Cathedral – 2021
Part of the “Heaven and Earth” Son-et-Lumiere by Luxmuralis
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Lichfield Cathedral – 2017
Part of the “Great Exhibition”
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