Me Thinks

I loved reading this 120 page book about Maria Merian's life story and art.  Maria was a pioneer in science and art, and the combination of the two.  I adore her paintings.  Here is a sampling:

The painting below is called Turk's Cap Lily, 1675

The painting below shows a banana flower and young bananas.  Maria also includes a saturniid moth with its caterpillar, cocoon, and pupa.

In the piece below, Marie painted the beautiful giant owl butterfly with its caterpillar and chrysalis. She also included the humble brown wasp, considered by many a pest, but which she admired for its ingeniously constructed nest.

Marie said:

One is full of praise at God’s mysterious power and the wonderful attention he pays to such insignificant little creatures…Thus do not seek to praise or honor me for this work, but rather God, glorifying him as the creator of even the smallest and humblest of these worms.