This piece belongs to my Alchemy of the Soul series, which is really about transformation and the moments when nature seems to outdo itself. It started with something I actually watched happen. A passionflower vine in the garden became completely surrounded by monarchs, more than I had ever seen in one place, and for a few minutes the whole thing looked almost unreal.

I wanted to hold onto that feeling of abundance, of life multiplying beyond what you expect. So the vines twist across the panel and the wings gather in clusters, never quite still. Passionflowers have always struck me as some of the strangest, most intricate blooms in the garden, and they gave the composition its rhythm.

The frame is an antique 19th-century cathedral structure with doors that open and close, and that architecture mattered. Closed, it keeps its secret. Open, the garden spills out. It felt like the right vessel for a piece about ordinary things becoming, for a moment, enchanted.