“...yea, and the gilded velvets of butterflies and the butterfly cheeks of young girls...”

installation of approximately 200 paper butterflies constructed from white paper cut from magazine pages and embellished with polka-dots cut from images of cosmetics - also from magazine pages.  the butterflies are two layers thick, hand-sewn, laminated and pinned to the wall.  the title comes from the chapter entitled “the whiteness of the whale” in moby dick.