Each spring, monarch butterflies travel from the oyamel forests of central Mexico to southern Canada, a migration that takes four to five generations to complete. Guided by an internal compass and the position of the sun, they navigate toward places they have never seen before.
Permission to fly
Each butterfly was produced through screen printing, a method that multiplies and fixes images through repetition. Media operates similarly, imprinting narratives that circulate and shape public opinion. As ink builds up, the surface thickens, a reminder that messages, once reproduced enough times, gain weight, permanence, and power.
Using newspapers spanning more than a century, Permission to Fly reflects on how media discourse shapes perception, how the weight of narratives can redefine what flight means and alter the very possibility of movement itself.