This work offers an intimate encounter with the Boulder Copper, one of Aotearoa's smallest native butterflies, resting on a sun-warmed stone. Rendered in artist pencil on translucent drafting film, the drawing balances precision with atmosphere, allowing coppery tones to shimmer as light moves gently through the surface.
The contrast between the fragile butterfly and the enduring weight of stone creates a quiet tension: one fleeting and almost weightless, the other ancient and immovable. Together they form a suspended moment of stillness, as though the landscape has briefly paused to observe itself.
Rather than spectacle, the work invites a slower attention to small things. Here, resilience is not force but continuity, and stillness becomes a quiet agreement with place. The butterfly's presence reveals how meaning often resides in what is easily overlooked, held gently within scale, light, and proximity.
Framed: 25 x 35 cm | 9.84 x 13.78 inches.
Unframed: 21 x 29.7 cm | 8.27 x 11.69 inches.
Medium: artist pencil on drafting film.
Framing: the artwork comes ready to hang, and is professionally matted and framed with UV protective and non-reflective glass.
