Esther lives in a well-worn vintage toolbox that once housed socket wrenches. She is a bit of a lurker, fluttering around the porch light in the evening. She is a beauty, but she doesn't know it.
Created from tiny scraps of recycled often vintage gardening and design magazines, arranged layer by layer to form rich texture and subtle color shifts, she is an original mixed-media collage set into her ready-to-hang, weathered, vintage toolbox home. Accented with delicate hand stitching, she carries depth you can feel and details that reward a closer look.
Artwork Details • Size: 11 x 11 x .5 inches • Ready to hang or stand on a shelf or mantle • Mixed media: recycled magazine pages and thread, vintage toolbox • Varnished for UV protection and longevity • Signed on both front and back
About the Butterfly Moths
My Butterfly Moths are 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.
Why Collect an 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 stop them.
Esther and the toolbox she is set into are uniquely tactile—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.
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