HARU


In my small room at the Headlands Art Center, I created a field of Fennel. I used a 16 penny nail, a version of the traditional Japanese flower arrangers needle mat, to form the bunches of standing Fennel. I carefully placed 38 pupas of Anise Swallowtail into the room on the Fennel stacks and walls. (The pupas were all collected last fall in San Francisco.) The window was kept open allowing the metamorphosing pupas to fly out when they reached the butterfly stage.