Chère Câline & Warm-bro NFT

Taiwan is the country with the highest density of butterfly species in the world. This mysterious island is home to over 400 species of butterflies -. But in truth, its nickname”Butterfly Kingdom” has nothing to do with these. What really gave Taiwan its reputation as the Butterfly Kingdom was from its world-renowned taxidermy technic creating framed “Butterfly Specimens”!

Watching these specimens was one of my hobbies when I was a child. The one that impressed me the most was not a butterfly but an “Atlas moth”, that seemed to have a snake on its wings. Since then the Atlas moth has been imprinted in my mind; a strong symbol of Taiwan itself. 

However, it recently came as a shocking surprise that these moths, that I love dearly, do NOT  represent Taiwan to the rest of the world. Only Taiwan butterflies are well known.  Its moths, however dazzlingly beautiful, are neither known nor loved world-wide. Not even in Taiwan itself.  

Over 4.000 moths species are known in Taiwan. Make it 6.000 with the estimated unknown species. 

Taiwan largely deserves to be called the Moth kingdom. Moths may have a bad rep, but they are cuter than butterflies. Their soft and fat body and the fluff of their scales are so cats-like that I couldn’t resist mixing moths and cats. Thus the Chapillon was born.

台灣－擁有四百多種的蝴蝶與世界最高蝴蝶種類密度的神秘島國 。但「蝴蝶王國」的名號，其實跟這些並沒有實際上的關聯，真正讓台灣冠上蝴蝶王國的美譽，是來自於台灣世界封頂的「蝴蝶標本」製造技術與輸出量！因為家人在林務局負責這部分的工作，所以小時候蝴蝶資料庫可是等同我家後院般的來去自如。那些需要用像是方向盤才能移動的資料架與巨大收納室至今都深深刻印在我的腦海中。
但讓我最為印象深刻的卻不是蝴蝶（因為我很怕蝴蝶）反而是一隻像是擁有雙頭蛇點綴在翅膀上的「皇蛾」當年只有七歲的我，看著這隻比我臉還大的巨大昆蟲，除了差點當場昏厥，也留下了無法抹滅的強烈記憶。

在我開始思考創作一些有台灣特點跟自己喜歡的東西的時候，突然就跳出了那隻皇蛾的巨大模樣。老實說⋯⋯第一個想法是恐懼的，那是一個像是惡魔的面具一般的記憶，著實嚇人。但轉頭我家的貓就跳到了我的腳上，一邊摸著Caline一邊瀏覽著網路上的蛾類資訊。驚訝地發現，這就是我想要的東西啊！
台灣的蝴蝶享譽世界，但沒想到台灣蛾才是最需要被以訛傳訛（亂用成語）的不可思議啊！全台灣光「已知蛾種」就已突破蝴蝶十倍以上，如果加上「未知蛾種」總數粗略估計也有六千多種，稱呼台灣為世界數一數二的蛾類多樣性王國絕對不為過！而且蛾類甚至比蝴蝶更能撐上可愛，多數的成蛾有著較為肥嫩的身軀與類似絨毛般的表皮附體，整體上讓我覺得與哺乳類更有相似點（個人主觀腦補）於是蛾與我家小胖貓就這樣在我腦中混合。

The idea came from a joke with a friend and turned into wanting to make a series of pictures.That’s Witch Pig !

這個創意是來自於跟朋友的一個玩笑，而轉變成為想要製作出一系列的圖片。這就是巫女豬的誕生。