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"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 me
And the white chestnut brunches 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 4.6.1942

This poem is preserved in typewritten copy on thin paper in the collection of poetry by the poet, which was donated to the State Jewish Museum during its documentation campaign. Pavel Friedman was born on January 7, 1921, in Prague and deported to Terezin on April 26, 1941. He died in Auschwitz on September 29, 1944.

BUTTERFLY PROJECT 2007
The focus is on the idea how illusionist space operates as an important part of reading of texture, image etc,. and how it impacts on the ambiguity of scale. To determine the means of expression colour and surface is investigated. By analyzing visual material and exploring the boundaries where natural forms loose their identity and cross over into the new realism of meaning I hope to focus beyond the context of the source material. I examine the role of colour, texture and surface in terms of expressive way of exposing feelings and it's selectiveness in regards to emotional resonance in the viewer's interpretation of the moods and ideas.
still haven't even started to say what I want to say, not knowing yet how to say it...

"As the legend goes, If anyone desires a wish to come true they must first capture a butterfly and whisper their wish to it.

Since a butterfly can make no sound, the butterfly can not reveal the wish to anyone but the Great Spirit who hears and sees all.

In gratitude for giving the butterfly its freedom, the Great Spirit always grants the wish. So, according to legend, by making a wish and giving the butterfly its freedom, the wish will be taken to the heavens and be granted."