Tuesday, 9 November 2010

The Butterfly Effect

I found this project when I was browsing the internet. The idea is to make 1,500,000 butterflies one for each of the innocent children

who perished as a result of the Holocaust. The link below will tell you more.




http://twodressesstudio.blogspot.com/2010/08/butterfly-effect-open-is-calling-you.html

I Never Saw Another Butterfly


The last, the very last,
So richly, brightly, dazzlingly yellow
Perhaps if the sun’s tears would sing
against a white stone....

Such, such a yellow
Is carried lightly ’way up high.
It went away I’m sure
because it wished
to kiss the world good-bye.

For seven weeks I’ve lived in here
Penned up inside this ghetto.
But I have found what I love here.
The dandelions call to me
And the white chestnut branches in the court.

Only I never saw another butterfly.
That butterfly was the last one.
Butterflies don’t live in here, in the ghetto.

Written by Pavel Friedman, 4 June 1942
Born in Prague on 7 January 1921
Deported to the Terezin Concentration Camp on 26 April 1942
Died in Aushchwitz on 29 September 1944

there's plenty of time to make a butterfly you have till 31st December 2011