Description
Despite its surreal and somewhat heavy laden imagery, Butterflies can live here is a profound statement of hope and resilience. A matriarch, the archetypal creator, is focused on her craft at a sewing machine, an island of deliberate action in a sea of symbolism.
She is surrounded by the weight of existence, pigs, fish, and a loyal hound clutching a plank bearing “the final nail”, motifs of burden and finality seen elsewhere in Rademeyer’s universe. Yet, the title reframes this scene entirely.
It insists that even here, in this space crowded by life’s harsh realities, there is room for delicacy, transformation, and beauty. It suggests that hope is not found in the absence of hardship, but is rather an act of creation; something one chooses to make, stitch by stitch, amidst the chaos.
Artist: Irda-Adri Rademeyer (SA 1989)
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