This piece features a vibrant Death’s Head Moth, rendered with a single strand of embroidery floss in slow, deliberate layers. Known for its skull-like marking and symbolic associations with transformation, mortality, and misjudged beauty, the moth here becomes a kind of emblem: delicate yet dark, feared yet fascinating. Stitched with precision and patience, “Wingspan” challenges the divide between craft and fine art. The technique—often dismissed as domestic or decorative—demands reconsideration. Each thread asserts that traditional women’s work isn’t background—it is the art. This is not embroidery as embellishment. This is embroidery as expression, labor, and power.