"Madame Butterfly" Original painting

This is Madame Butterfly... a blending the concept of the Japanese art of Kintsugi - where broken things are mended with gold, thus creating unique works of art, the idea that something that is broken can be even more beautiful than the ‘original’, unbroken item - and the story of La Mariposa from "Women Who Run with Wolves" by Dr Clarissa Pinkola Estes.

“Butterfly Woman mends the erroneous idea that transformation is only for the tortured, the saintly, or only for the fabulously strong. The Self need not carry mountains to transform. A little is enough.”