24 × 18 oil on board
Butterfly is a playful meditation on imagination and the many ways we learn to see. A black cat stretches sleepily among white sheets scattered with children’s drawings of butterflies, from exuberant scribbles to more recognizable forms. Each small interpretation captures a different way of understanding the same thing, celebrating the freedom, curiosity, and wonderfully imperfect vision of childhood.
Before we learn what something is supposed to look like, we are free to encounter it on our own terms. A butterfly may be a collection of marks, an explosion of color, a strange shape with wings, or something recognizable only to the child who made it. None of these interpretations is entirely wrong. Each reveals something about the person doing the seeing.
The cat rests comfortably among these competing versions of reality, unconcerned with which one might be the most accurate. In its quiet presence, the painting leaves room for the possibility that imagination is not something we must outgrow in order to understand the world more clearly.
Butterfly celebrates the individual nature of perception and the creative freedom that exists before certainty takes over, inviting us to remember that there can be more than one way to see the same thing.
Limited edition signed/numbered giclee prints available
24 × 18 oil on board
Butterfly is a playful meditation on imagination and the many ways we learn to see. A black cat stretches sleepily among white sheets scattered with children’s drawings of butterflies, from exuberant scribbles to more recognizable forms. Each small interpretation captures a different way of understanding the same thing, celebrating the freedom, curiosity, and wonderfully imperfect vision of childhood.
Before we learn what something is supposed to look like, we are free to encounter it on our own terms. A butterfly may be a collection of marks, an explosion of color, a strange shape with wings, or something recognizable only to the child who made it. None of these interpretations is entirely wrong. Each reveals something about the person doing the seeing.
The cat rests comfortably among these competing versions of reality, unconcerned with which one might be the most accurate. In its quiet presence, the painting leaves room for the possibility that imagination is not something we must outgrow in order to understand the world more clearly.
Butterfly celebrates the individual nature of perception and the creative freedom that exists before certainty takes over, inviting us to remember that there can be more than one way to see the same thing.
Limited edition signed/numbered giclee prints available
