Mothmetamorphosis

As well as being a fairytale, What To Look For In Winter is taking on a fantastical element, with coats and people metamorphosing into moths…

He pulled his coat

over me

his moth’s wings

And I was mothballed

moth-eaten

I blended into the

curtain

just like a moth.

I like moths. They’re badass, melancholy winter butterflies, bewitched by the moon (so the Stitch Witch in me approves!)

I embroidered a moth for my series The Onion Cutters’ Club:

Doubtless I’ll be using the lepidopterans as a motif in the future.

The text of this latest page of What To Look For In Winter is inspired in part by a grainy webcam self portrait I took in which I am blending into the curtain “just like a moth“.