Katharine Cosenza Butler: Vivid Defiance presents etchings, monoprints, and encaustic monotypes that use the natural world as a manifesto of hope against global warming and the brutality of ongoing conflict. Flowers and vivid color are not merely subjects but acts of resistance — documenting growth where there should be desolation, honoring the persistence of life in its refusal to remain silent. The works hold the tension between fragility and brutality, proposing that even in the darkest seasons, color and bloom assert themselves with unyielding brilliance.
