A few more additions to the Etsy site tonight – still in the resin zone! Last summer we found a monarch butterfly in the grass that had been eaten by a bird. The bird left the wings behind. I know it sounds kinda gross, but I folded the wings into some paper and slipped them into my wallet, knowing I would do something with them later.
I would never hurt a living thing to make art – so I couldn’t pass up the chance to get my hands on perfect monarch wings! I also put in a few floral pieces based on some tulips I preserved last spring. I had taken the summer off working with resin… clearly I missed it!
How brilliant, using what nature readily provides! These pieces are so pretty and inspiring.
Beautiful work!!! Maybe it may sound rather silly but somehow to use the wing of a butterfly already passed on or the petal of a flower preserved between a book seems like quite an acceptable – even inspiring idea – but to do the same regarding the human body parts or even animal body parts (although , the use of feathers or fur seems ok but inner parts questionable) seems rather gross. A prejudice, yes but an interesting one.