“Butterfly Tattoo Portraits” by Photographer Marisa Chafetz

Brooklyn-based photographer Marisa Chafetz (beforehand featured right here) started her “Butterfly Tattoo Portraits” sequence the week earlier than Covid lockdowns began. Feeling lonely and disconnected from a higher sense of neighborhood, she found that, amongst artist associates collaborating in a bunch present, about half of them had butterfly tattoos (herself included).

“I used to be stunned to search out deep that means in that serendipity, and I imagined a thread between us- one which I strung up myself once I bought my tattoo,” she explains. “I began to think about this thread between myself and all the opposite individuals within the metropolis who’ve butterfly tattoos. It felt like a refined intertwining of our tales. The portraits characterize each the sitters as they’re, and my eager for connection and collective. It’s additionally a celebration of chosen id: tattoos and portraiture each affirm artwork’s capability to deepen our imaginative and prescient of who we select to be.”

See extra of Chafetz’s “Butterfly Tattoo Portraits” beneath!