Oil and acrylic on board in an ornate hand painted frame, 11.5x11.5x2cm. Contact us for purchase enquiries at info@louisemcnaught.com.
The Black Butterfly of the Beyond
A quiet emissary from the unseen, the Black Butterfly of the Beyond moves between worlds without resistance. Its wings, dark as the night sky, but Black, in this form, is not emptiness but depth: the space where all things dissolve and are remade. It holds the mystery of what lies beyond the visible, beyond certainty, beyond the need to understand.
Subtle flashes of blue and violet shimmer through its wings like glimpses of something just out of reach, intuition, memory, the echo of something eternal. Behind it, the burst of light feels almost like a crossing point: a moment where one state gives way to another, where the veil thins.
In this tiny totem, the butterfly becomes a guide through transition. It speaks to those standing at thresholds, between past and future, grief and acceptance, knowing and unknowing.