by Hannah Hernandez and May Lin

FOLLOW THE LIGHTS explores the end of the monarch butterflies’ journey through light and shadow. Monarch butterflies make a multi-generational long-distance migration, marking the end of their journey with life and death. A new generation continues the cycle. The project manipulates light and shadow to create the motion of butterfly wings once activated with human presence, symbolizing its liveliness and partial absence.

Hannah Hernandez is a musically creative artist who currently attends Hunter College. I like to incorporate music and science into my art, as I love how it combines the way the mind works. In many ways, I used music to communicate with people. I enjoy finding science out of curiosity.  By bringing science, music, art, and nature together, I feel like it could bring the curiosity out of people who interact with it. I also found peace within all of those things because it takes away the reminder of the stress in life that consumes my life a majority of the time. I want to bring that to other people as well, which is what I put into all of my work and projects that I want to share with everyone.

May Lin is a multi-disciplinary artist primarily working in film and sculpture. They are an undergraduate student at Hunter College majoring in film and studio arts. Their work explores the body in relation to memory, gender, and architecture. Their interest lies in the threshold, the in-between transitory space.