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Butterfly


Medium: Pastels and colored pencils on gray board
Size: 30 x 30 Inches
Year 2011

The butterfly’s attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful if they did not fly, or if they flew straight and briskly like bees, or if they stung, or above all if they did not enact the perturbing mystery of metamorphosis: the latter assumes in our eyes the value of a badly decoded message, a symbol, a sign.

Primo Levi



© Copyright drew Struzan 2011