Poéme No. 8: Season of Butterfly

"Poème No. 8: Season of Butterfly" of 1948, executed in woodblock-and-object technique, takes the butterfly's season (late spring and summer) as a compositional subject, with the delicate, apparently weightless quality of butterfly flight translated into the formal language of abstract printmaking. The object-print technique may incorporate actual butterfly wing material or pressed insect specimens, making the print a direct material record of the natural world rather than merely a representation of it. The butterfly as a symbol of transformation and impermanence carries its traditional resonance into this abstract context.