rose-colored: wings

Sources: background is detail of photo by Wolfgang Tillmans (2003), clipped from Taschen 2009 Christmas catalog; moth wings by Maria Sibylla Merian (also from ad in Taschen catalog), a way cool woman who traveled to Dutch Guiana in 1699 to do entomology research proving, for the 1st time, the phases of metamorphosis from caterpillar to moth/butterfly; hand w/ roses from postcard of a Mexican "calendar girl"; flying-fish collage is a well known Dada/surrealism image by the incomparable Max Ernst (my hero).