Recognized for her mastery to create striking self portraits with depth and meaning who enriches life, possessing lasting and impressionable depth and value. It was June 1, 1962, her thirty-sixth birthday. Isabelle van Zeijl is an established mid-career international acclaimed artist. Here, at last, is Marilyn Monroes account, in her own singular voice. We’ve all heard the saying “the only constant is change,” and embracing change, whether that change is external or part of our own interior landscape, is one of the keys to our positive personal evolution.

It’s an inspiring message that teaches us that growth and transformation need not be traumatic or painful, but rather liberating and joyful, a natural part Like a metaphor for profound change in the cycles of our lives, moving from one state, perspective, or lifestyle to another, the butterfly’s remarkable shape shifting journey carries an important message for us to seek out and find our true essence, no matter how far removed it may be from our present selves. Eight years before the filming of her last picture Marilyn Monroe and George Barris had met and decided one day to do a picture book and autobiography together. The story goes that during one of his journeys he saw a group of butterflies practically motionlessly whirling by a tree. Satin-finish 8 x 10 photo of Monroe, signed at the bottom by the photographer in black felt tip, George Barris. Actually my first glimpse was of her behind.

Barris recalls: When I first caught sight of Marilyn, she was leaning out the window of a brownstone on fashionable 61st Street on the East Side of Manhattan, posing for a film scene. The genus Phalaenopsis was described in1825 by a Dutch botanist, on the island of Java. Marilyn Monroe and George Barris first met on the set of The Seven Year Itch in New York in 1954. The most highly coveted of ornamental plants, the delicate, and graceful orchid represents love, feminity, beauty and strength.

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