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skunkworker on Dec 14, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Enough with the Dead Butterflies (2017)

It’s hard to unsee the fact that the common depiction of a butterfly is a dead one instead of an alive one, and based upon a field guide/ shadowbox.

djsumdog on Dec 14, 2019 [–]

I dunno. I read about this when this article was posted before and totally forgot about it until just now. Then again, I don't have a lot of stuff with images of butterflies. I do have a friend who is obsessed with them who I sent the same article. I wonder if it's stuck with her.

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