Original size: 46/87cm  ​
Botticelli’s masterpieces Primavera (c. 1482) and The Birth of Venus (c. 1485); are probably Botticelli’s best known works and are among the most famous paintings in the world, and icons of the Italian Renaissance.
 
From the very beginning of my work of art, I was drawn to Botticelli’s paintings; his female images were “talking” to me, as they talk to everyone looking at his paintings. It was and still is a strong feeling of an affinity to them as they are part of some of my collages.
This collage of mine was made after reading about Simonetta Vespucci, the model of feminine beauty of Florence in the middle of the sixteenth century. I knew the story, but I did not plane the collage nor did I know what it is saying. I am learning it now, while watching it and writing those things for you and me.

Original size: 100/60cm  ​
​This collage is a Labyrinth of knots, connections, relationships, communication, magic and belief.  It was made with hundreds of buttons I have made out of cardboard, thanks to Martha Stewart’s button punch (thank you Ms. Stewart!!!). It can tell different stories as much as the numbers of its viewers.  I wish you will let yourself being creative and kind enough to share your story, (the one that come up to you while watching it) with me and other readers. I thank you for it in advance.

This is an expanded collage. Its name indicates that the morning is the time of this occurrence, a Time of Beginnings; while bringing in it the unseen and raising some other questions. 

Someone that apparently knows Ms Button is asking this question. Is it asked with a kind of humor or because of knowing Ms. Butten and her abilities to notice an angel in this earthly surrounding? Ms. Button’s cat, (what’s his name?) surprisingly looking outside the garden. Is it the angel he is looking at? The cat’s gaze can be interpreted as if he is looking at the angel standing where you, the viewer, are. 
This person asking the question is looking at Ms. Button, who is looking at her cat, looking at you watching this and maybe the angel too. As the buttons are connected by the red thread, so are all of those glances connected with one another as we, all human beings and everything else does.
 
So many buttons are in it. They grow in Ms. Button garden; they are in her name, as an ornament on her dress, her apron and so on. I did so many of them till my hand hurt. Even so, after the collage was done, I looked at it from a distance, and realized that no matter what, I have to make more buttons and hang them down. Only now, after doing this research about the symbolic meaning in it, I understand why I did so. 

In the beginning of this writing, I thought only that the Red Thread is connecting Ms. Button garden to the Labyrinth. This writing allows me to think deeper and understand much better what’s in it. Now I realize that everything else in this collage is also connected. The Labyrinth, the spinning wheel, the Red Thread, Ms. Buttons, her Lilies, her cat, the Angel, they all are symbols of connection between worlds. Birth, fate and death, associated with lunar and feminine qualities are connected in it too. 
 
Ms. Button is connected to Holda (Frau Holle) and Perchta (Frau Perchta) both known as goddesses who oversaw spinning and weaving. She is the Great Mother; she is Freyja, the goddess of fertility; the Moon Goddess, and the Great Magician who connects it all, including us people to the divine and to one another.
So, who is the angel? The answer is left unknown, as the angel. Yet, you can complete the story; as you are part of this story. Are you the angel?
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As they are so many, I chose to write only about part of the symbols in this collage. There are more to look for if you are interested in going further and deeper. ​