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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...

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