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"Unknown" Death's Head Moth Painting
$350.00
- Title: Unknown
- Subject: death's head moth (acherontia atropos)
- Medium: acrylic & gold leaf on wood panel
- Artist: Aimee Schreiber
- Year: 2025
- Size: 5 x 7 inch (12.7 cm x 17.8 cm)
Elevate your walls with this mystical moth painting by Aimee Schreiber. Featuring an exquisite gilded death's head moth against a gleaming full moon and clouded night sky, this jewel-like painting invites you to contemplate the mysteries of transformation and the unknown.
Details: This original acrylic and gold leaf painting on a 5 x 7 inch wood panel comes framed in a captivating ornately carved wood frame with antiqued gold leaf that measures 7 x 9.25 inches around the outside.
Artist: Aimee Schreiber
Aimee Schreiber is an artist and poet based in Tumwater, Washington, known for her symbolic paintings of moths. Drawn to their intricate patterns, otherworldly colors, and evocative symbolism, she often elevates her subjects with gold halos and dramatic scale to invite viewers into the unseen worlds both outside and within themselves.
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About the Memento Mori collection
The Memento Mori Collection explores death and the unknown using moths with skeletal patterns against the night sky.
Symbolism: Moths remind us to trust our transformational process, honor the night, and seek the light in dark places, opening our eyes to the ephemeral beauty and freedom on the other side of change. The moon and clouds remind us to notice the impermanent, cyclic nature of reality.
This poem is based on the titles of the paintings in this collection:
Beyond
Beyond the patterns
and silvered voices
longing, grasping
Beyond the lanterns
and moonlit choices
reaching, asking
We glow, then go...
dissolve into something
we can't know
I dreamt of death
when I was still small
exhaled my breath
and floated far
up to a void full of
metronome stars
please note:
*This piece is on display in our Memento Mori show for the month of November. Purchased paintings can be picked up or shipped from The Copper Wolf after December 6th.
Colors vary from screen to screen and are represented as accurately as possible. The metallic leaf and glossy, protective varnish create interesting, shimmering effects depending on the angle of the viewer.
*Attention International Collectors
Please be aware that you may have to pay additional duty fees to the shipping service upon arrival at the border.