Butterflies
1985 • Luxor, Egypt
When I asked Akhmet “what is missing?” he responded that when he was growing up in Cairo there were so many butterflies. They were so abundant that they would be everywhere and many different kinds—from monarchs to swallowtails to smaller brightly colored butterflies. Now there are almost none.
Maya Lin, Global Residency Program
Creative Time / Rockefeller Foundation
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