“The paradox of youth worship is its inherent urge to preserve the effervescent, a lepidopterological inclination to pin down the things we love for their very flightiness—to mount a butterfly under glass.”
Elliot Josephine Leila Reichert is an American curator, critic, and editor.
Francesca Woodman, “On Being An Angel, Providence, Rhode Island, Spring 1977,” 1977. /Photo: Nathan Keay
“The paradox of youth worship is its inherent urge to preserve the effervescent, a lepidopterological inclination to pin down the things we love for their very flightiness—to mount a butterfly under glass.”