Fi Webster's photos with the keyword: moth

Cut-paper collage postcard created for the "Un-Color" swap I hosted on swap-bot. I chose brown as my un-color—from the palest brown of computer punch cards, faded newspaper, and old bone, to the tan of paper bags and corrugated cardboard, to siena, chestnut, and the darkest sepia. The title is a slogan of the United Parcel Service.

Sources: background is detail of photo by Wolfgang Tillmans (2003), clipped from Taschen 2009 Christmas catalog; moth wings by Maria Sibylla Merian (also from ad in Taschen catalog), a way cool woman who traveled to Dutch Guiana in 1699 to do entomology research proving, for the 1st time, the phases of metamorphosis from caterpillar to moth/butterfly; hand w/ roses from postcard of a Mexican "calendar girl"; flying-fish collage is a well known Dada/surrealism image by the incomparable Max Ernst (my hero).

These beauties get up to a 6-inch wingspan. They don't eat: they just fly and breed.