"This Sacred Place We Call Home" by Heidi Lowell
“When the butterfly enters its chrysalis, it turns onto a gelatinous mess. It emerges later, as a completely different creature, with entirely different DNA. I believe this messy process happens during metamorphosis. In this at, the butterfly is the universe’s symbolic permission slip to be messy and change.”
Watercolor + Wax on Sycamore Wood
8” Diameter
2021
“When the butterfly enters its chrysalis, it turns onto a gelatinous mess. It emerges later, as a completely different creature, with entirely different DNA. I believe this messy process happens during metamorphosis. In this at, the butterfly is the universe’s symbolic permission slip to be messy and change.”
Watercolor + Wax on Sycamore Wood
8” Diameter
2021
“When the butterfly enters its chrysalis, it turns onto a gelatinous mess. It emerges later, as a completely different creature, with entirely different DNA. I believe this messy process happens during metamorphosis. In this at, the butterfly is the universe’s symbolic permission slip to be messy and change.”
Watercolor + Wax on Sycamore Wood
8” Diameter
2021