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Two-Tailed Swallowtail Butterfly Art by kenne
I remember the first time I saw a swallowtail, trying to capture the details of this large attractive butterfly as it fluttered by. That was many years ago. Since moving to southern Arizona, I have photographed many, and one of the things I have noticed is that they seem to be attracted to purple flowers.
I continue to be fascinated by this beautiful creature, often taking some my photos and turning them into art like the above image. This art was created from a photographed I took in August 0f 2012.
Vladimir Nabokov wrote in his novel, Lolita, of the “splendid, pale yellow creature with black blotches, blue crenels and a cinnabar eyespot above each chrome-filled black tail.”
— kenne
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Two-Tailed Swallow Butterfly (Papilio multicaudata) On Mexican Bird of Paradise — Image by kenne
“Every man’s foremost task
is the actualization of his unique,
unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities,
and not the repetition of something that another,
and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.”
― Martin Buber
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Catch Me If You Can (Two-tailed Swallowtail) — Image by kenne
Catch me if you can,
Being on the run symbol —
immigrant outcasts.
— kenne
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Two-Tailed Swallow On Mexican Bird of Paradise: the Last Signs of Summer — Computer Art by kenne
As far nature,
it is not what it is
that interests me,
but what it becomes.
— kenne
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Two-tailed Swallowtail Butterflies — Image by kenne
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
— Jules Renard
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Butterfly Grunge Art by kenne
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Grunge Art Butterfly (Two-tailed Swallowtail) by kenne
YELLOW
In the beginning, oh, long before that.
When light was deciding who should be in and who should be out of the spectrum.
Yellow was in trouble.
Even then it seems that green, you know how green can be, didn’t want yellow in.
Some silly primal envy I suppose, but for whatever cause, the effect was bad on yellow.
And caused yellow to weep yellow tears for several eternals, before there were years.
Until blue heard what was up between green and yellow and took green aside for a serious talk,
in which blue pointed out that if yellow and blue were to get together,
not that they would but if they did (a gentle threat),
they could make their own green.
“Ooh” said green with some understanding.
Naturally by a sudden change of hue green saw the light and yellow got in.
It worked out fine,
yellow got lemons and green got limes.
— transcribed from Ken Nordine’s jazz and word poem, Yellow
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Butterfly and Flower Art — Computer Art by kenne
We love butterflies
Deciding among flowers
This one or that one.
— kenne
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Wisdom of Art III” Computer art by kenne
“The main thing now is not to paint precociously but to be,
or at least become, an individual.
The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression,
whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.“
— Paul Klee
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“Wisdom of Art” — Computer Art by kenne
“This is the wisdom of art, the knowledge that beauty perhaps is the one undeniably unique attribute of the human.”
— C. K. Williams
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“Flight” Two-tailed sallowtails among Mexican Bird of Paradise — Image by kenne
“Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.”
E. O. Wilson
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Two-tailed Swallowtail, Just Grunge ‘n’ — Grunge Composition by kenne
You might cross your burning deserts
You might walk your path alone
And a sudden storm may blind you
Shake your spirit to the bone
Seeking shelter for a weary heart
A place to rest, a place to hide
Then somewhere down your troubled road
You find a place where love abides
— from “Love Abides” by Tom Russell
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“You Land Lightly” — Computer Art by kenne
You land lightly
as a butterfly
upon a thistle
gently bathed
in nature’s radiance
coloring the landscape
which I capture
curving the contrast
against darkness.
— kenne
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Two-tailed Swallowtail — Image by kenne
Two-tailed swallowtail
Still trying to get its wings
Lands on dirt runway.
— kenne
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A student hold a Two-tailed Swallowtail just after coming out of its cocoon. (March 9, 2015)
Just outside the Sabino Canyon Visitors Center, A Junior Naturalist (7th grader) showed a Two-tailed Swallowtail with wings still curved, just having emerged from her cocoon. This image represents the last stage of a caterpillar morphing into a butterfly, which began with a very hungry caterpillar hatching from an egg. The caterpillar will spend this phase of its life stuffing itself with leaves, growing plumper and longer through a series of molts in which it sheds its skin. Then, one day the caterpillar stops eating, suspends itself upside down from a twig or leaf and spins itself a silky cocoon where the caterpillar digests itself, eventually emerging as a butterfly. Cool!!
kenne
Images by kenne
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