Lepidopt-err what? Oh! Butterfly person!

Down:2:Earth Boston is enhancing our video project from last year. This year we have set up a small theater where you can catch the short films submitted to us on topics ranging from water art to endocrine disruptors.

Make sure to catch “Teá’s Butterflies,” by artist Mark Adams. It is a short film about high school student Teddy Kesting-Handly, a young lepidopterist who volunteers at the Museum of Science’s Butterfly Garden.  His expertise and passion for moths and butterflies since the age of ten has now made him one of the youngest players in an international network of butterfly traders and conservationists. Through the vision of an enthusiast, no matter how young, we learn how to see the natural world that’s all around us. Mark interweaves his interview with Teá with quotes from author Vladimir Nabokov, Taoist philosopher Chang Tzu, and animated drawings of butterflies.

Make sure to check it out at Down:2:Earth, April 9,10,11.

“I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke.  Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man.” – Chang Tzu

“Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.” – Nabokov

Tags: butterflies, Museum of Science, Nature