Ruby | Butterfly Moth Collection
Ruby holds her ground.
Her upper wings are layered in soft blush and fragments of text, while the lower wings deepen into saturated reds — bold, graphic, and alive with movement. Loose threads trail beneath her like traces of where she’s been, adding motion that feels both grounded and untamed.
From a distance, she reads as strong and striking. Up close, fragments of recycled pages reveal themselves — bits of text and color once overlooked. The longer you look, the more emerges.
Ruby brings warmth and presence to a space. She doesn’t recede. She changes the conversation.
.Artwork Details
• Size: 10 x 10 inches (artwork)
• Professionally framed and ready to hang
• Mixed media: recycled magazine pages and thread
• Varnished for UV protection and longevity
• Signed on both front and back
About the Collection
My Butterfly Moth Collection is inspired by the landscape around our 80 acres in Northern Michigan—milkweed fields full of monarchs, quiet woods, and small discoveries that invite me to slow down and really see. But my connection to butterflies goes deeper than place. They were a constant in my childhood, stitched into the needlepoint pillows my mother made and woven into my earliest memories of color and detail. Over time, they also became a symbol of my own transformation and reinvention. In many ways, these pieces echo that journey, turning tiny fragments and overlooked bits into something layered, alive, and wholly new.
Why Collect the Original?
Only one exists. Collecting the original connects you directly to the creative process, the hands that made it, and the story behind it.
Collectors often say the same thing: it’s the texture and details that stops them.
The original Ruby reveals every layered scrap, every thread, every tiny surface variation that creates depth and movement. It’s the difference between seeing a photograph of something and standing right in front of it—present, dimensional, alive.
