One-of-a-kind bleach-painted T-shirt featuring a large Cecropia moth across the back, with warm rust-orange bleach marks glowing against black fabric.

This version keeps the front completely plain, so the moth stays hidden until you turn around. The artist’s mark is bleach-painted on the sleeve.

Painted on a Gildan Softstyle 64000L Women’s T-Shirt
Size: Women’s Medium
Fit: Women’s fit
Fabric: 100% ring-spun cotton
Colour: Black
Design placement: Large Cecropia moth on back; plain front
Artist mark: Bleach-painted signature on sleeve

Each shirt is painted by hand with bleach, so the marks, tones, and textures are unique to the piece.

Thank you for supporting my work. Each shirt is made by hand, with bleach, instinct, and a little bit of moonlit chaos.

Black Cecropia (WM)

$110.00

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The Cecropia moth is North America’s largest native moth — but for all its size, it lives only a brief, winged chapter.

It spends most of its life hidden in a cocoon, waiting, building, transforming in silence. When it finally emerges, it doesn’t linger. It simply flies, drawn by instinct, carrying the quiet beauty of its own becoming.

This one feels especially nocturnal.

Against the black fabric, the warm bleach marks almost look lit from within — part ember, part moonlight, part strange little signal from the dark.

She feels like a keeper of thresholds. A reminder that some transformations happen quietly, long before anyone else can see them.

Worn on your back, she becomes a private signal: that you honour the things no one else sees. That you trust your own cycles. That you can step out of the dark carrying nothing but the truth of who you are.

Black Cecropia (WM)

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