"Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary"

Terese Agnew
Clothing labels, thread, fabric backing
94 1/2 x 109 3/4 in. (240 x 278.8 cm)


""Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary" is the inaugural exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Design in the new building at 2 Columbus Circle, which opened in September 2008. The exhibition features work by 50 international established and emerging artists from all five continents who create objects and installations comprised of ordinary and everyday manufactured articles, most originally made for another functional purpose."

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“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
-Maya Angelou

Austin First Night

Metamorphosis Arte - The Migration of the Monarch Butterfly
“La Migracion de las Monarcas” is a bilingual interactive puppet show using puppets, theater, dance, music and graphic arts to illustrate the history of the migration of the monarch butterflies. The monarchs migrate each year from the mountains of Michoacan, Mexico, traveling through the U.S. and into Canada. As they travel and lay their eggs, the process of metamorphosis occurs and they return to Mexico with a new generation of butterflies. While tracing the migration of the monarch butterflies, our story develops various metaphors relating to international relations and communication, the US/Mexico Border wall, agriculture, pollution and resource conservation. The show is for all ages but attracts many children with its colorful puppets and dancing.