caterpillar
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This year also featured some of the most memorable art in the festival’s history, with the hippos running “Corporate Headquarters” and the transformation of Poetic Kinetics’ Coachella caterpillar into a butterfly.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026
Trefry likened this awkward time of life to the stage in a butterfly’s development when a caterpillar disappears inside a chrysalis and dissolves into goo before reforming into something entirely new.
From Salon • Nov. 24, 2025
If you’ve ever glimpsed a caterpillar dangling from a branch by a silk thread, they’re on their way down.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
Awd Goggie was a giant caterpillar in charge of the orchards.
From BBC • Dec. 25, 2024
She captured it all in words and sketches—each chewed leaf, each plump caterpillar, each shed skin, each cocoon.
From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman
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