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.

Editing the 'Behind Paradise' footage from Morocco today and wishing for less snow more sunshine, hence this sunset outside Skoura image. Glowing palm trees in a 'paradise' oasis.

Details from collages

Anniversary of Iranian revolution and detail from "Mother & Child Veiled" collage.

"The foure square forme is the most usually accepted with all, and doth best agree to any mans dwelling ...... yet if t bee longer than the breadth, or broader than the length, the proportion of Walkes, Squares, and knots may be soon brought to the square forme and be so sast, as the beauty thereof may be." Parkinson, Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris, 1629

Plane ticket high-rise. Started another two chahar-bagh collages this week in a very cold studio. Not sure what architectural images to use. The gardens were: Bagh-i-sahib zamam and Bagh -i-haram, both formerly at Ashraf (Beshahar) near the Caspian.

Versailles & a knot formation from Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris 1629