Creative Destruction

"Creative Destruction" is part of the book-object series used to understand both the process of plastic waste degradation and the symbolic importance of the butterfly; an insect that emerges from a larva, and then transforms into a beautiful chrysalis. The butterfly’s transformative process is much like how plastic emerged as a major technological development in the twentieth century until its complete disappearance in the mid twenty-first century. “Creative Destruction” also shows the symbolic importance of foods in times of massive consumerism. The authorities to establish the quarantine in the “BT-Plax” island, because of the butterfly, confiscated “Creative Destruction.” The butterfly’s symbolism trespassed legal borders. But the book-object, “Creative Destruction” was returned to the collection after verifying that it didn’t contain any danger of organic or molecular bacteria. The butterfly is currently extinct.