I saw this post from Craft Critique encouraging crafters to send butterfly’s to the Holocaust Museum of Houston for their Butterfly Project.
I have two photographs of a Monarch I took a couple of years ago, and although it isn’t technically Handmade I think I’ll send a print anyway.
Of course the one I’m going to send won’t have the watermark, and I’m thinking of taking off the text at the bottom. Both are on gloss photo paper (no matte :<) and un-mounted. I might sell on Etsy :o
I’m contemplating doing a mini art quilt, since I’ve always been intrigued by art quilts, and the desired size for the Butterfly Project is 8”x10” so the small size might be perfect for a first art quilt. My vision: this butterfly fabric as the background with a silhouette of either a child, a butterfly, or a child holding a butterfly (if I can do that nicely).
The Butterfly
The last, the very last,
So richly, brightly, dazzlingly yellow.
Perhaps if the sun’s tears would sing against a white stone.…
Such, such a yellow Is carried lightly ’way up high.
It went away I’m sure because it wished to kiss the world good-bye.
For seven weeks I’ve lived in here,
Penned up inside this ghetto.
But I have found what I love here.
The dandelions call to me
And the white chestnut branches in the court.
Only I never saw another butterfly.
That butterfly was the last one.
Butterflies don’t live in here, in the ghetto.
Pavel Friedman, June 4, 1942
Born in Prague on January 7, 1921.
Deported to the Terezin Concentration Camp on April 26, 1942.
Died in Aushchwitz on September 29, 1944
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