Yinka Shonibare Butterfly Kid Analysis

My piece is on Butterfly kid (girl) and this can be found at The Baltimore Museum of Art.
This piece is surrounded by many types of information how it depicts one person covered with butterfly wings. It stands tall at about 6-7 feet in height. There's so much to talk about the uniqueness of Butterfly Kid and why it stands out to me the most when I went over to the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Getting the descriptions of the Butterfly Kid just right is a challenge in it of itself. This piece was released in Baltimore Museum of Art in 2015. The Butterfly Kid is also a part of the series made by the same artist Yinka Shonibare shown in 3 different locations. The materials used to make the Butterfly kid was: Fiberglass mannequin, Dutch wax printed cotton textile, silk, metal, globe and steel baseplate.
The dress the figure is wearing resembles a long-forgotten Victorian era made from a particular vibrant fabric that shows up in most of Yinka Shonibare's work. Shonibare mentioned that he was inspired by the batiks (created by the local colonies in East Indies that currently known as Indonesia) that manufactured this fabric in Europe in order to sell to West African markets. This
Thalheimer Memorial Fund. Yinka Shonibare. Yinka Shonibare's Butterfly Kid have the wings made out from silk, while her head is a black globe with a golden antenna protruding up from the top. The black globe that represents her head is inscribed with many latin names indicating the many different species of butterflies and where they can be found. The description for Butterfly Kid implies that for Yinka Shonibare that for the many themes surrounding his piece, he never meant to criticize European imperialism rather overtly but instead tackles what's lying underneath. Underneath Butterfly Kid, this explores the complexity of the impacts of the shattered colonial era and the aftermath of the forgotten Victorian