Over the last forty years, butterflies have offered Wallace Chan endless fascination. As a child, Chan recalls thinking of butterflies as “flying colors,” and in his series titled Forever Dancing he works to capture the insect’s movement. For the Chinese, in addition to the nearly universal themes of beauty and metamorphosis, the butterfly symbolizes eternal love. The story of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai (Butterfly Lovers) offers a Romeo and Juliet-like tale where the spirits of the ill-fated lovers ultimately live forever in the form of butterflies. Nearly all of Chan’s butterflies are brooches. He prefers this form as it allows for wearers to be freer and more playful with the creature’s placement on their body. If you have walked through an indoor butterfly conservatory at a local zoo or park, you have observed the way the insects move through the air, flying between plants, flowers, and sometimes settling on an unsuspecting visitor. This is how you are meant to encounter Chan’s butterflies—pinned to a bodice, nestled in the hair, placed as if landed on a shoulder, or perhaps as a flash of light from across a crowded room. Brooches offer endless possibilities for a wearer’s creativity.