Butterflies and the Winged Friends
Tags: Watercolor Painting, Watercolor, Art, Painting, Surrealism

Where these paintings entitled “Butterflies and the Winged Friend” is the work of an inspiration than a person who is experiencing turmoil, wounded, and the dilemma as be the perspectives of others against that person. Here I am interested in trying out a psychological depiction and drawing it using my favourite genre of surrealism.

The work entitled “Butterflies and The Winged Friends”

The paper size I used was 21 cm × 29.7 cm. In this painting it can be seen that there are 2 people with different circumstances, but please note that the two people are actually the same person. In the butterfly winged person, it is a reflection of what she feels when the world forces her to be a paradox between being herself or being someone else whose fall will always be in the same hole, namely dislike/hatred from the perspective of others. As a result of the world that never received it, the mask was damaged and it was torn apart little by little, no matter how strong it was to endure the pain. There I describe it as a butterfly which is like a butterfly that has metamorphosed completely but it cannot see the beauty of its own colourful wings. This causes her to be less grateful. As for her being overgrown with wild plants and wrapped in parasites, it means that she will gradually die because she lives according to what other people like. Busy for everyone to accept it so that she does not realize that she is often used by others or in other words a symbiosis of parasitism. The woman with the wings of the butterfly sits in an open cage, which should be able to fly freely at any time, but the words of others, even if they are “just” words, make her not confident of her choice. When other people say not to get out of the cage because it is very dangerous outside for a butterfly winged person, but that is not entirely true, outside is dangerous, but people with butterfly wings never know what it feels like to have big dreams. The situation is inversely proportional to the background depicted, which is full of dreams and hopes in which the colour preference is a bright colour that can support this interpretation. Then in the painting, there are also pictures of several pairs of eyes in black crack holes, meaning from other people’s perspectives on her, many of them make themselves cracked butterfly wings. But behind the pain, she then realized and remembered God, her family, and other people who could accept her. So there he sees a side of herself that can fly freely because of being herself as loved by those who love her. In the painting, I depict a person with wings of a Phoenix, which is taken from an Egyptian mythological animal, an animal reborn from its ashes. The phoenix itself was once a clampless bird and was slightly bald due to its shedding feathers. Then after all the hair fell out, Phoenix died and turned to ashes. But after that, she was reborn as a beautiful bird and radiated warmth. This can be an indication that a person with butterfly wings has never forgotten the hope she has and that of God’s will she has it again. As for there, she wore an eye patch, which means justice and compassion regardless of status and physicality. The person with wings of the Phoenix also stretched out her hand to invite the person with butterfly wings to get out of the cage. Her helping hand was greeted by the hand of a butterfly-winged person who was still unsure of her choice. The ending of the painting’s story depends on the person viewing the painting. If they were an optimist and full of hope, surely they will hope and see if the person with butterfly wings accepts her helping hand. Vice versa, as what the pessimist saw was that the person with butterfly wings pulled back her hand and did not accept the helping hand. There the hand is already near the helping hand, so my hope as a painter is that people today still have dreams and hopes.