This contemporary portrait is inspired by Zhuang Zhou’s famous parable: “Once Zhuang Zhou dreamed he was a butterfly, a butterfly flitting and fluttering around, happy with himself and doing as he pleased. He didn’t know he was Zhuang Zhou. Suddenly he woke up, and there he was, solid and unmistakable Zhuang Zhou. But he didn’t know if he were Zhuang Zhou who had dreamed he was a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming he was Zhuang Zhou.” In this image, a woman’s face merges with the expansive wings of an Attacus atlas, the world’s largest moth, blurring the lines between human and insect, dream and reality. The composition evokes transformation, fragility, and the fleeting nature of beauty. Soft, painterly light recalls Renaissance and Dutch Golden Age painting, where insects symbolized the soul, youth, and life’s delicate impermanence.