Time it turns upon the hour,
Upon the sacred blooming flower.
Fan in florid flurry blends,
Whirling whispers of second hands.

Lavender-blue floral-eyed kiu-fae Miku spills soft rose curls before a vibrant froth of rich starry blue. Butterfly ears peep from tangled tresses that abut a melting fine bone china cap, rimmed with filigreed gold. A robotic, flower-festooned hand pops from a vintage, floral fan with clock-like flare. 

To be ephemeral is to be short-lived and passing as rind of frost on nature’s leafy crest, crumpling and chilled, to change upon unknowing. It is love of once and broken, of sensual fondness masked o’er lust—the coolest chill of porcelain, when warmth of broth is bared and lost.

The disapparated body of the fae in "Blue Porcelain", Miku, is reminiscent of the magically disappearing Cheshire Cat, illustrated floating above the Queen and King of Hearts, with her extended, clock-hand, Cheshire grin, within the original Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland illustrations by John Tenniel. The fluttering fan evokes the earthly chatter of said illustration in Chapter VII “The Queen’s Crochet Ground”: talk beneath the Cheshire-Cat’s levitating grin,

In this painting, can you find the white porcelain cat sitting on a teacup handle, much like the Cheshire Cat does in a tree when conversing with Alice in Tenniel’s illustrations?

The melted teacup is homage to Salvador Dali’s surreal soft watches in “The Persistence of Memory” and to the Mad Tea Party from Wonderland.

“Blue Porcelain” is a play between the vintage and techno-future, between the ephemeral and everlasting aspects of time—a remark on relativity.