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by Shoshanah Dubiner
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Our greeting cards are 5" x 7" in size and are produced on digital offset printers using 100 lb. paper stock. Each card is coated with a UV protectant on the outside surface which produces a semi-gloss finish. The inside of each card has a matte white finish and can be customized with your own message up to 500 characters in length. Each card comes with a white envelope for mailing or gift giving.
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The Great Transformation of the clumsy caterpillar into a graceful butterfly is one of Nature's miracles. The caterpillar spends its life crawling,... more
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The Great Transformation of the clumsy caterpillar into a graceful butterfly is one of Nature's miracles. The caterpillar spends its life crawling, eating the leaves of various plants and trees. When the time comes for it to transform, a 'shell' called a chrysalis, forms around it. Inside its chrysalis, the entire caterpillar body everything dissolves into a 'molecular soup,' EXCEPT special groups of cells called imaginal disks. After a while, the imaginal cells start to duplicate. As they grow in number, they start to form the legs, wings, mouth, heart of the new butterfly. When the butterfly is fully formed inside its chrysalis, it breaks out, dries its wings, and flies away. As a butterfly, it feeds on flower nectar. The Great Transformation of the clumsy caterpillar into a graceful butterfly is a metaphor for the social transformation needed in this era of climate change. Humanity society needs to change. As a species, we need our own chrysalis of self-transformation. ATTENTION: Pa...
"My painting takes off from nature inspired by science, especially from cell biology and botany. While much art depicts the world at the human scale (landscapes, portraits, apples in a bowl) I often start with cell membranes, the inside of cells, the silk spigots of spiders, lichens — the world of the tiny. By depicting natural forms in an imagined, mythical world, my paintings reveal the human psyche and its capacity to go beneath the surface of things; to experience beauty and awe and even fear; to understand that we humans are connected to all the other creatures on earth and even to the cosmos. I enjoy observing and reading about nature, but I am not a scientific illustrator in the conventional sense. I do study my subject matter...
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