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the film follows arthur "art" shapiro on his daily walks through the californian countryside as he observes—with a pencil and paper in hand—changes in the local flora and fauna. art's particular area of expertise is butterflies, and so the film explores just why that is and how incredibly important his recordings have been, not just as a professor, but also in the field of "slow science". art's obsessive behaviour has lead to some powerful truths being revealed about our planet's now rapidly changing climate.

we were taken by the film and caspar immediately had an idea for the poster. he sent karlis images from korean artist's chang hong ahn's 2004 piece 49 people's meditation and suggested we try and make a similar piece, but with art and his local butterflies at the center of it. karlis was into it and headed to california to take one more picture of art, with his eyes closed in the dappled light of his back yard. caspar then processed the photograph and proceeded to cover art in butterflies of art's choosing.