Paulette Haywood Ogard, writer and co-author (with Sara Bright, photographer) of Butterflies of Alabama: Glimpses into their Lives, commissioned me to make a large fabric art panel for her home office. I imagined Paulette sitting at her desk, writing, and taking a break to look out into the garden through the french doors to watch the butterflies. I was thrilled that she would ask me to make a wall hanging for her, and my ideas went straight to bright and colorful butterflies. When she said, “No, no, I don’t do butterflies,” I was surprised, and then stuck, because I couldn’t imagine anything else.
