Picture: Chuang Tzu Butterfly

"One fine day came, as usual, the disciples to listen to his spiritual master Chuang Tzu. It was the great sage and famous Chinese philosopher, and every day came to him the people to listen to conventional wisdom.

Chuang-Tzu in the day looked gloomy and thoughtful, which was unusual for the sages. The disciples were worried and asked:

- The teacher that You? You're normally so happy and cheerful, and today, Moody and brooding. Must have happened something bad?

Sage slowly replied:
- Last night I dreamed I was a butterfly. I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting over the meadow flowers, and it was so beautiful!

Chuang-Tzu closed his eyes and sank into the vivid memories of the flight of a butterfly in a dream. Someone of the students asked:
- But what is the problem? Why are you upset? It seems that this is a very beautiful and pleasant sleep.

Then the teacher said:
- When I dreamt I was a butterfly, I flew and didn't realize that I was Chuang Tzu who sees the dream. Here's the thing. I woke up this morning and the first thing I thought – "I am not the butterfly and Chuang Tzu». But now I'm sitting in front of you and can't understand that I am Chuang-Tzu, which in the dream it seemed that he was a butterfly, or maybe I'm a moth, who now sleeps and he dreams that it is Chuang-Tzu?.."

( Chuang - Tzu, a parable "About a butterfly in a dream" ).

The picture is made with pastels and charcoal on watercolor sketch on textured paper. Halftone colors change depending on lighting. Feature of pastels is that the ink mass is the individual pigment particles, reflected from which the light scatters in different directions, giving a special colorful layer luchistoi, velvety, specific "pastel" softness.