Creating Lepidoptera

Lepidoptera There’s normally a trade off in design, where some fairies take great photos and some fairies are more difficult to photograph but are so good in their physical presences. I’m not sure where Lepidoptera will end up as she a bit of a crazy design and stands nine foot tall, but she’s so spectacular when you actual get to walk around her. She needs to command the centre of a space and have people walk around her. I’m continually pushing what can be achieved with wire and I’m always looking for gravity defying illusions. I’ve wanted to made a life-sized fairy for sometime and I think butterflies and fairies are a good combination. I drew two potential ideas, one with her hair lifted by butterflies and one where she was lifted on a vortex of butterflies. Social media feedback was to make both, so I combined them into a single design. Back story: The inspiration for this fictional backstory is my followers comments that followed a question I asked on social media “what do bu