butterfly

DaMart picked up a clay butterfly sculpture engraved with the 11-year-old’s name.

The staging of this number unfolds with butterfly subtlety on Tesshi Nakagawa’s Japanese-style set.

At the moment, though, it’s hard to concentrate on anything other than the giant golden butterfly fluttering around our table.

Another exhibit, the museum’s newest work, “Mariposa” by Oakland-based LED artist Christopher Schardt, features a massive flapping butterfly powered by a swinging bench and illuminated by more than 39,000 full-color LEDs.

In another photo, he uses butterfly keyrings with battery-operated lights to create an image of multiple floating butterflies.