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Butter Flies

$250

“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

Canvas with hand-generated gilding and embroidery. Imagery reflective of the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for depression. Gold detailing follows the Circle of Fifths — a tonal architecture mirroring the diagnosis.

depression · 8 × 8 in