What is the significance of the black butterfly?
Ali Miller: The black butterfly is about me getting darker, but knowing that a butterfly changes. Ultimately, everything that I make, I want to look beautiful, even if it is dark in nature. I did some violent work as a reaction to my father’s death, but I think that they still looked beautiful. I would like to leave a little bit of hope. DD: Do you have any plans to develop this series of work? Ali Miller: I think the images that I’ve collaged feel very English and it would be interesting to go to Israel and perhaps use very different images from my Grandmother’s house. It would be interesting to go to some of the same spots that my dad went to, and for me to photograph those places the same way he did. DD: Do you have any future exhibitions planned? Ali Miller: I’m going to show a different body of work in the Women’s area of Liberty’s in August and I’m going to show at Virgin in the first-class lounge in Euston, and also in the Jewish cultural centre next May. ‘Brave Soldier and Blac
