Albino Small Copper. Bradford, W Yorks 1995	Albino  Meadow Brown. Thorne, S Yorks 1997

Perhaps the very title of this website may surprise and bewilder. What on earth can it mean and why put dialectics and butterflies together as surely they have nothing in common? Isn’t this merely pretentiousness worthy of some glib, media obsessed air head and installation artiste? The wording though was proposed by a friend in casual conversation - an eco plumber who, a few years previously, helping dig the tunnels, opposing the proposed Newbury by-pass near Oxford, made contact underground - mud in hand - with dissident minor officials employed by Yorkshire Water desperately trying to rescue the image of its water capitalisation (& distribution) after the catastrophic Yorkshire drought of 1995. Dislocation of role as consequence of calamity produced a fruitful chance encounter that would never have occurred in normal circumstances and our plumber friend went on to create various ingenious schemes to conserve water especially for St James Hospital, Leeds in the cardiac dept. In a sense this was negation and dialectical process leading to an action creating another imaginative intervention.

     One of us was in two minds about the website title ‘Dialectical Butterflies’...