Originally, when I was asked about chapel theme for 2024, I was pitched a butterfly as the symbol of transformation. I wanted to see more of that actual transformation, but also what it means in a spiritual journey.
With color, I could have gone anywhere, but I decided on the more pastel pink and origami shapes for each of the icons: the caterpillar, the chrysalis, and the butterfly.
The title Bible verse referred to the mind itself and my mind floated to the more literal image, but not from real life.
The inspiration for this was actually from an anime I watched years ago, Katekyo Hitman Reborn! (家庭教師ヒットマンREBORN). The image had nothing to do with the mind or a brain, but it was the fourth ending credits sequence.
This ended up informing a lot of the color choices as well as the transition from something from an older design and icons contrasting it. Kyoko’s sequence with the pink accent was what had me more interested.
I really wanted the pink and that came from the video game series Psychonauts. I didn’t want to fully commit to the salmon, fleshy literal brains from the game. The green is also a contrasting color, which plays well into the “transformation” of a caterpillar and a butterfly.
In my mind, I imagine thoughts all “bubbling” in the head, so what better to do the literal bubbles?
The font is Josefin Sans from Google Fonts, lending well to each of the geometric stages of the butterfly.
Each butterfly piece represents a particular portion of the spiritual journey and plays into the behavior of that particular metamorphosis stage.
- Caterpillar
- Chrysalis
- Butterfly