A bit of sérendipité, really, to be tooling around Wynwood in a holiday mindset and a rental car at the end of the year, and to look up to see Mantra on a cherry picker. We had just seen him in Brooklyn the month before and here he was again, painting freehand, as he does, with such precision and commitment, which he also does.

The painting is thoughtful, as you may expect, with each of the collection a butterfly that can be found in Miami, he tells us. Next month he will be in Mexico in the middle of millions of – you know what. Keep going strong, Mantra.
Binomial name, from left to right, top to bottom :
1A Eurema d. daira
1B Eunica Tatila
1C Zerene Cesonia
1D Phoebis Philea
1E Limenitis arthemis astyanax
2A Papilio P. Palames
2B Hypolimnas Misippus
2C Siproeta Stelenes
3A Eurema d. daira
3B Eunica Tatila
3C Zerene Cesonia
3D Phoebis Sennae
3E Eumaeus Atala



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