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Garden Gallery — Path 1 — American Tear Butterfly
American Tear Butterfly
— In Memory of September 11, 2001 —
This is a December 28, 2015 revised version of the American Tear Butterfly. I started work on the first version of this American Tear Butterfly on September 23, 2001, and finished it on September 25, 2001. That first version of the American Tear had still needed a lot of work, but I had wanted to get it posted right away, even if it was not ready yet. This new version of the butterfly has had another, intensive, two days of work put into it. With this version, I have adjusted the colors, smoothed out the detail work, reworked the bottom tear section of the lower wings, and done extensive modification work on the butterfly’s body. By the way, except for where the wings attach, the thorax and abdomen parts of the body still have the same outline as the original butterfly’s body, but the head shape was slightly altered.
September 11, 2001 was a tragic day in U.S. American history. The events of that day have had a lasting impacted on this country. In the early days that followed 911, I felt the need to express my feelings in art and poetry, and then share those works online. The companion poetry piece for this American Tear Butterfly is found within the Garden Gallery — Path 2 pages.
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Additional Notes
Additional Notes
— About my art —
To the left, at the top-left side of the image, is the first draft of the American Tear Butterfly. It took three days of work to get from that top-left image to the bottom-right image, which is the first finished version of the American Tear Butterfly.
The American Tear Butterfly is not actually modeled after any single, real, butterfly, although I did study two different, real, butterflies for different anatomical aspects of their wings and bodies. I only loosely used the anatomical aspects that I observed from those real butterflies to make my imaginary butterfly though.
The two butterflies I studied to shape my imaginary butterfly were the Ornithoptera Croesus and the Papilio Ascalaphus. No, neither of these butterflies are native to North America, but most of the people of North America are not native to North America either. America is made up of people from many parts of the globe, including Southeastern Asia.
Another influencing factor in my decision to study Southeasterm Asian butterflies, for the making of the American Tear Butterfly, is that I had, at that time, a strong romantic interests for Lilies, a Chinese-Indonesian woman.
I feel though, that since this butterfly was not made in Indonesia, or the Philippines, but right here in the United States of America, and it only has Southeaster Asian influences, this is indeed an American butterfly, even if it is just an imaginary American butterfly.
The butterfly to the right is the blue version of the 2015 revised American Tear Butterfly. This American Blue Tear Butterfly could have used at least one more day of refinement work, but I ran out of time and need to move on to the next art project now. The red version, near the top of this page, could have used one more day of refinement work as well.
Michael A. Crane, Jr.
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This page last updated on: December 31, 2015
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