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Cassandra Bohne-Linnard is obsessed with butterflies.
wings. She then poses the butterflies on clocks or
She paints them, she photographs them, grows flowers to
beneath glass domes in a way that captures their
feed them, and when they die, she brings them back to life.
beauty mid-flight, as if each were still living. “It’s really a delicate process,” she says. “They’re so
vibrant art pieces using the preserved bodies of real but-
fragile. One wrong move and you could really mess
terflies. From wooden clocks to mixed media, Cassandra finds a way to style exotic butterflies as they would appear in nature. Each butterfly is delicately revived, pinned and preserved indefinitely behind framed glass. “These are all natural,” Cassandra says. “Every single butterfly. This is their God-given beauty. Each of them are unique works of art themselves.” Every step of Cassandra’s art is carefully coordinated. She imports the creatures from around the globe – all have died naturally – to her Cypress home. Each arrives in an envelope dehydrated and brittle. Cassandra then painstakingly rehydrates each insect in a moist chamber – a kind of bug spa – to revive the butterfly’s color and soften its
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Cassandra, a painter-turned-butterfly artist, creates
these up.” Many of Cassandra’s clients see a deep symbology in her butterfly art. Some see them as a symbol of rebirth or hope for better things to come. Many honor loved ones who’ve passed away with butterfly
Remembrance Boxes. The boxes hold a photo of a loved one along with a resurrected butterfly. Some order her clocks, her most popular design, as a statement piece for the home. But for Cassandra, her restorative butterfly art is about showing off nature’s diverse beauty. It’s about creating something as unique as the creatures she’s restored. BlueButterflyDesigns.net
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Cypress Lifestyle | February 2021