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This painting is a variation on an earlier work called 'Tiger Tango'. Adapting the original composition of 'Tiger Tango', 'Tiger Swallowtails' is a fusion of feline and butterflies themes that have been explored within the cycle of works of 'Power Animals' and the 'Butterfly Nebula'.

The painting bares obvious reference to an allergorical visual 'pun', that of the Tiger Swallowtail butterfly. The addition of the Unicorn within the center of the painting, pertains to the magical nature of the content, perhaps its the 'solar plexus' of the allergory, seen as a kind of poetic tango being performed below a radiant 'sun'.