The Transformation of Things

Artwork: #1 of 24 by Alice McMahon White

The Transformation of Things Drawing - Alice McMahon White

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black drawings, butterfly drawings, zhou brothers drawings, paint brush drawings, inspiration drawings

Title:

The Transformation of Things

Artist:

Alice McMahon White

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Drawing - Charcoal On Mylar Drafting Film, With Pink-grey Backing Paper

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Description:

From the Black Butterfly series. Portrait of DaHuang Zhou, from a reference photo by Steven E. Gross.

I am a member of the 33 Collective Gallery located in the Zhou Brother's Art Center, Chicago. The Zhou Brothers have been generous to allow our co-op gallery to use the entire art center for our group show this month. The show opens Friday March 20th, 2009. The Zhou Brothers are always on hand at the center and are very supportive of the members of the gallery and of their artists in residence. I am fascinated with them, their persona, and their work and decided they would be perfect subjects to draw for my series, which always features creatives as models. DaHuang Zhou's older brother Shan Zuo was the subject for the companion piece, "I Dreamed I Was a Butterfly".

The butterfly is borrowed from a Chinese watercolor design, and the Chinese symbols stand for "passion-enthusiasm"

As noted in my earlier blogs, in this series the butterfly is symbolic of the artist's muse. The title of this work comes from the closing verse of this Chinese literature by Zhuangzi - [Chuang-Tse]

"One day about sunset, Zhuangzi dozed off and dreamed that he turned into a butterfly.
He flapped his wings and sure enough he was a butterfly...
What a joyful feeling as he fluttered about, he completely forgot that he was Zhuangzi.
Soon though, he realized that that proud butterfly was really Zhuangzi who dreamed he was a butterfly, or was it a butterfly who dreamed he was Zhuangzi!
Maybe Zhuangzi was the butterfly, and maybe the butterfly was Zhungzi? This is what is meant by the "transformation of things." - Zhuang Zi (369?-286? b.c.)

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