from the Garden of Cyrus

Lastly, The incession or locall motion of animals is made with analogy unto this figure, by decussative diametrals, Quincunciall Lines and angles. For to omit the enquiry how Butterflies and breezes move their four wings....

Butler's Butterflies

Commission for a version of 'The Butler's Collection' 
- here reconstructed and revisited. 
This cage had to be returned to its rightful owner, so the 
small version butterflies now reside in a tasteful bamboo concoction. 
Still thinking about butterflies and moths, camouflage and mimesis, 
perhaps in miniature tableau form.