“Some of it is ugly, obscene and bestial, some of it is pure and holy and spiritual: all of it is myself.”
― James Joyce, Selected Letters of James Joyce
An 8×8 canvas featuring a white butterfly in motion, overlaid with embroidered thread and gold leaf geometry. The blurred wings suggest both movement and heaviness, capturing a moment of fragile effort. Gold circles drawn from the Circle of Fifths impose a structure that feels distant from the organic form beneath. Red and peach stitching marks the wing like a coded interruption, a disruption of natural rhythm. Inspired by the DSM-5 criteria for major depressive disorder, this piece reflects emotional inertia, the weight of suppressed vitality, and the quiet resistance to disappear completely. The butterfly, often symbolic of transformation, here resists lift, caught in a pattern it did not choose.
“Some of it is ugly, obscene and bestial, some of it is pure and holy and spiritual: all of it is myself.”
― James Joyce, Selected Letters of James Joyce
An 8×8 canvas featuring a white butterfly in motion, overlaid with embroidered thread and gold leaf geometry. The blurred wings suggest both movement and heaviness, capturing a moment of fragile effort. Gold circles drawn from the Circle of Fifths impose a structure that feels distant from the organic form beneath. Red and peach stitching marks the wing like a coded interruption, a disruption of natural rhythm. Inspired by the DSM-5 criteria for major depressive disorder, this piece reflects emotional inertia, the weight of suppressed vitality, and the quiet resistance to disappear completely. The butterfly, often symbolic of transformation, here resists lift, caught in a pattern it did not choose.
