Graellsia Isabellae


I don't remember what I was looking for the other day, when something disrupted the so called order of my moth paintings. Between Actias Luna and Erebus Albicincta Obscurata, fluttered Graellsia Isabellae, perfect for Romance Sonambulo. According to Wikipedia, she is a European version of Actias Luna. Spanish Moon Moth lives in Spain and France. Red lines on her wings make her look less fragile than the green version, Luna Moth, although I think she is equally translucent. Somehow she seems rough, concrete, not something out of a fairy-tale, but a real moth. Beautiful and scary at the same time. 

The red lines on her wings remind me of a steel structure of a greenhouse. It's a crumbed down greenhouse, ovegrown with ivy, Virginia creeper and vine, abandoned for decades ... or so it seems. Each night the green maiden comes to the balcony, waiting among shadows. With silver eyes she watches the reflection of the moon on the water below in the fountain.


Graellsia Isabellae / Spanish Moon Moth / Španska mesečeva vešča. Photo source / vir

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Ne spomnim se več kaj sem iskala, ko sem naletela na nekaj, kar je porušilo navidezni redosled mojih akvarelnih vešč. Med Actias Luno in Erebus Albicincta Obscurato je priletela Graellsia Isabellae, Španska mesečeva vešča. Kot nalašč za Mesečniško romanco. Glede na informacije na Wikipediji, živi v Španiji in Franciji in je evropska verzija Actias Lune. Zaradi rdečih linij na krilih je videti manj krhka kot zelena Mesečeva vešča, čeprav se mi zdi, da je enako prosojna. Po svoje je bolj groba, konkretna. Nič več napol namišljeno bitje iz pravljice, ampak resnična vešča. Lepa in strašljiva hkrati.

Rdeče linije na njenih krilih me spominjajo na jekleno strukturo napol podrtega rastlinjaka, preraslega z bršljanom, virginsko plezalko in trto. Rastlinjak je že desetletja zapuščen ... ali pa se samo tako zdi. Vsako noč na balkon pride zelena mladenka in čaka med sencami. S srebrnimi očmi opazuje odsev lune na vodi v vodnjaku.


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