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

close-up detail

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.