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Butterflies are one of the most amazing transformations (metamorphosis) of Nature, emerging with such beauteous colours and flying off from ugly crawly caterpillars. They help by pollinating flowers, but their beauty is also their biggest flaw. They are captured and chloroformed to preserve as cabinets of death. A work from the Butterfly Series won Ahmad Shukri Mohamed the Major Prize in the Malaysian Art Open in 1994, while Insect Diskette, still with images of the papillon, won the Juror’s Choice Award in the Philip Morris Asean Art Awards finals in 1997. The butterfly image is also used in the Target Series, Bar Code Series, Diskette Series in the 1990s, and later in his Golden Gate Series. This work has the same pedigree as those shown in Shukri’s solo exhibition, 939495969798 at Art Salon, Kuala Lumpur, in 1998.