“Chou Chou Sanpo” Limited Edition Digital Print
Print Size : 210mm x 297mm 
Andrea Innocent(a.k.a innocentgirl), 2006.

All images © Andrea Innocent 2005 - 2008

There is a line of Japanese poetry (haiku)          
expressing sorrow over the lost pleasures 
of the past. 

Rakka eda ni 
Kaeru to mireba -- 
Kocho kana!


“When I saw the fallen flower return 
to the branch -- lo! 
it was only a butterfly!”
Moritake


Alluding to the Buddhist proverb: 
Rakkwa eda ni kaerazu; 
ha-kyo futatabi terasazu 

("The fallen flower returns not to the branch; the 
broken mirror never again reflects.") 

So says the proverb -- yet it seemed to me that I 
saw a fallen flowe return to the branch... 
No: it was only a butterfly).