chrysalis

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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

Late March/early April is a time of rebirth but also of the friction and occasional struggle of transition — the lime-green shoot emerging from the dirt; the chrysalis stage before the butterfly.

From New York Times

Most of Gisela Colón’s abstract sculptures are shimmery, translucent and bulbous, suggesting eggs, cells and chrysalises.

From Washington Post

“For me, it would not sound right to say, ‘Come out of your chrysalis,’” he continued, “and so poetry won over science!”

From New York Times

And everything that’s happened since — me playing solo, Jimmy playing jazz — is all in some way the result of the shattering of that chrysalis.

From Washington Post