Butterfly

My work depicts a melting butterfly. The butterfly is my favorite creature, and the best moment of its life is its metamorphosis, from tiny larva to beautiful butterfly. But behind this lies pain and struggle, and I use the melting of the butterfly by fire to show this process. I use the principles of similarity and symmetry to construct the whole work, and use closure, proximity and continuity to depict the details of the work more specifically.
Based on the symmetry, I think the irregularity is more attractive to me. Therefore, I created the details as irregular drops of water in a symmetrical way. It is precisely this sense of irregularity that expresses the freedom and the butterfly’s breaking free from its bondage.
The butterfly is reborn in the fire, defying the pain for the most wonderful transformation into a butterfly. This is the courage I admire.                            

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