Photography

Cody creates art that is playful in its process and irreverent in its meaning. They work in design, in community, and (typically) in pain.

To help me grasp my insect's unorthodox nature, a UH scientist said it best: "Imagine you live in a supermarket where you bury yourself in a mound of food, eating your way through it to evolve into the next version of yourself."

This is the life of the Batrachedrodes caterpillar. It transforms into a moth by covering itself in the very fern spores it feasts on. Delicious.

(A brief note on the metaphor: We originally envisioned a burger joint. However, out of respect for the natural world and spore pods everywhere, the metaphor also metamorphosed. In this modern life, the supermarket is truly our fern—a vast plane where we caterpillars bury ourselves in clusters of food.)