This was a beautiful project to be a part of. Called Home, the project was initiated by artist and designer Daryl Cordell and run by the Arts Centre Melbourne. Home involved communities across Melbourne and Victoria using the bare house-shaped wooden block as a starting point for their interpretation of "home". I was kindly given the opportunity to participate through my daughter's school.
As a mother of small kids who need me at home and not in my studio, "home" presents me with something of a quandary, this conflict for me has been slowly turning into a theme that I call Motherville. The Butterfly House, titled "Motherville", explores this feeling I have of being caught between my role as a mother and my need to create.
The butterflys are modeled on Pieris Rapae, or the Cabbage Butterfly, a lovely thing but a serious agricultural pest in Australia. I have omitted the distinctive black dots from its wings.
The process pics show my paper mock up, a polymer clay prototype (shown is one of many) then production.
For further details about the event see Home - Arts Centre Melbourne and try #homemelb