{"id":2611,"date":"2026-01-24T20:26:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T01:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/?p=2611"},"modified":"2026-01-24T20:26:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T01:26:48","slug":"butterfly-pea-flower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/?p=2611","title":{"rendered":"Butterfly pea flower"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"721\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Olenick_Iviva_ButterflyPeaFlowerPhytogram_2026-1024x721.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2612\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Olenick_Iviva_ButterflyPeaFlowerPhytogram_2026-1024x721.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Olenick_Iviva_ButterflyPeaFlowerPhytogram_2026-300x211.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Olenick_Iviva_ButterflyPeaFlowerPhytogram_2026-768x540.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Olenick_Iviva_ButterflyPeaFlowerPhytogram_2026-1536x1081.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Olenick_Iviva_ButterflyPeaFlowerPhytogram_2026-2048x1441.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Butterfly pea flower. 2026. Diptych of embroidery on phytograms (plant-based photographs). 7 x 10 inches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"744\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Butterfly-pea-flower-embroidery-744x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2613\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Butterfly-pea-flower-embroidery-744x1024.jpg 744w, http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Butterfly-pea-flower-embroidery-218x300.jpg 218w, http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Butterfly-pea-flower-embroidery-768x1057.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Butterfly-pea-flower-embroidery-1116x1536.jpg 1116w, http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Butterfly-pea-flower-embroidery-1488x2048.jpg 1488w, http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Butterfly-pea-flower-embroidery.jpg 1575w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 744px) 100vw, 744px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Making this piece was layered and process-heavy: I started by embroidering an image of a butterfly pea plant on B&amp;W photo paper. Of course, this meant I was inadvertently exposing the paper, which had not yet been printed. The pink areas are where my hands made the most consistent contact with the paper. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"747\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/butterfly-pea-flower-w-emb-after-beginning-exposure_1-up-not-diptych-747x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2614\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/butterfly-pea-flower-w-emb-after-beginning-exposure_1-up-not-diptych-747x1024.jpg 747w, http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/butterfly-pea-flower-w-emb-after-beginning-exposure_1-up-not-diptych-219x300.jpg 219w, http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/butterfly-pea-flower-w-emb-after-beginning-exposure_1-up-not-diptych-768x1053.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/butterfly-pea-flower-w-emb-after-beginning-exposure_1-up-not-diptych-1121x1536.jpg 1121w, http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/butterfly-pea-flower-w-emb-after-beginning-exposure_1-up-not-diptych-1494x2048.jpg 1494w, http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/butterfly-pea-flower-w-emb-after-beginning-exposure_1-up-not-diptych.jpg 1532w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 747px) 100vw, 747px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This image above shows the initial chemical reaction of the paper to the butterfly pea flowers, which had soaked in homemade developer for several hours. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Below are the two phytograms in progress. You can see how the colors shifted over time with prolonged exposure from the top to the bottom image. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"703\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/butterfly-pea-flower-phyt-dipych-in-progress-1024x703.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2615\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/butterfly-pea-flower-phyt-dipych-in-progress-1024x703.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/butterfly-pea-flower-phyt-dipych-in-progress-300x206.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/butterfly-pea-flower-phyt-dipych-in-progress-768x527.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/butterfly-pea-flower-phyt-dipych-in-progress-1536x1054.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/butterfly-pea-flower-phyt-dipych-in-progress-2048x1405.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"728\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/butterfly-pea-flower-exposing-in-window-image-2-1024x728.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2616\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/butterfly-pea-flower-exposing-in-window-image-2-1024x728.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/butterfly-pea-flower-exposing-in-window-image-2-300x213.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/butterfly-pea-flower-exposing-in-window-image-2-768x546.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/butterfly-pea-flower-exposing-in-window-image-2-1536x1092.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/butterfly-pea-flower-exposing-in-window-image-2-2048x1456.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Butterfly pea flower. 2026. Diptych of embroidery on phytograms (plant-based photographs). 7 x 10 inches. Making this piece was layered and process-heavy: I started by embroidering an image of a butterfly pea plant on B&amp;W photo paper. Of course, this meant I was inadvertently exposing the paper, which had not yet been printed. The pink [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2613,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1397],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plant-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}