Artist Statement

Niko Sano

01/5/2021

Botanical Sandwich

My sandwich has many different kinds of flowers and leaves in it. The plants in the sandwich are for the butterflies...whenever they are hungry, they can come eat it. Because it is so big, more than one butterfly can eat the sandwich at the same time. All plants between the breads have different tastes, so the butterflies can taste different varieties of meals. The sandwich is like a buffet for the butterflies, because there are many options of food for them to choose from. The sandwich is a gift from an entomologist...a scientist who studied several kinds of insects and everything about them. The entomologist gave this sandwich to a group of butterflies because she wanted to study which flower or a plant they liked the best. The entomologist studies how the butterflies eat the plants in the sandwich by giving one to them every year in the winter... so that the butterflies do not have a problem finding food in nature during the cold season, when many of their favorite plants do not grow. The sandwich helps the entomologist to know which plant/flower the insects like the most, which they can use for her studies, and it also does a big favor for the butterflies.

I feel pretty good about how the sandwich turned out. I think that its background story makes my sandwich more interesting, and even realistic for it to exist. I would want to use colors in order to make my work a lot more colorful the next time I create a similar work as this.