Maxim, the artist and creator behind the collection, has had considerable success as a fine artist, working in both sculpture and painting. Additionally, he is part of the well-known hard edge dance music band The Prodigy and a globally-recognized musician. Lepidopterror is his first solo venture into NFTs and relates directly to his fine art butterfly paintings, which he started creating in 2009. His artwork is inspired by a childhood memory of an advertisement that showed a young girl running through a cornfield, waving a net as she tried to catch an elegant butterfly. He thought to himself “What would it be like if I armed that butterfly?” The butterfly is seen as a frail and gentle creature. He wanted to give it the ability and the strength to defend itself. This is how the Lepidopterrors were born. Maxim's art is always based in a surreal world, and taking these butterflies into the metaverse and creating NFTs is a natural progression for this collection.