Precious BUTTERFLY´S BLOOD on paper, a present from Santillana del Mar zoo's owner *,  is the print used as outside cover of my two volume book SACRIFY TO THE NOTHINGNESS 1988 - 2008. 

In February 1990 I experienced a bleeding out near death singularity. During the following 13 months I used my menstruation blood to paint directly  on paper. After the experience, I was developing an  obsession with an art&life project: "I want a house of butterflies". A crystal pyramid where to live and create surrounded by them. 

That same spring, just recently recovered from the blood transfusions, I traveled to Santillana del Mar (Santander, Spain) in order to visit its famous butterfly zoo.

© 2014 Teresa de Marco