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Fragility of Life in Patterns in Flight

Life is fragile.  This tenuous state is particularly evident in the smaller living creatures around us.  When I first decided to use butterflies as my subjects for a painting series, I ordered 12 Painted Lady larvae from a science company.  It was November, and I wanted to have a physical reference to work from as well as to study the life cycle of the subject.  Of the 12 larvae that arrived, 10 survived to enter the cocoon and 8 survived the cocoon and became butterflies.  By the end of the first month, I had around 5 butterflies, 2 of which survived ...

Speed of Time

I remember more then one science video that I watched as a child having a scene where something that took months to occur would be shown in a minute’s time.  Technology allowed us to see changes that occurred slowly, quickly.  For example, a plant would grow out of the ground, bud, a flower would open up and die all in the same minute.  It was fascinating because it was something that one could not experience in nature. How do my paintings treat speed?  Well, in Foreshadowing, paintings of flowers, time travels faster then the speed of nature.  In Patterns in Flight, b...