Build: The Last Flutter, 2025

The city keeps expanding. Roads are redrawn. Towers rise. The space for what once was is slowly disappearing.

This still-life documentary is inspired by Build – The Housemartins (1987), a song that reflects on the cycle of creation and change—the impermanence of life—through the rise and fall of buildings. We construct to fill the present, but over time, everything becomes mere layers of memory.

In these photographs, butterflies exist in a monochrome world, eclipsed by the endless neon glow of the city. Once part of these spaces, some species are now fading away in silence as urban landscapes take over. Those that remain are not stronger—only struggling more. With fragile wings and delicate bodies, they drift through narrow gaps between steel and glass, unable to resist the current of change.

These are some of the last remaining butterfly species still found in Bangkok—a city that continues to grow without pause. Among tiny forest patches hidden in the urban sprawl, the photographer reached these butterflies by working alongside butterfly caretakers in one of the city’s inner green sanctuaries. Through this collaboration, the project documents fragile species that may one day vanish under the pressure of urban expansion and shifting climates.