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In the painting "Butterfly Legs," there are women's legs branching out and becoming hundreds of beautiful butterflies. I connected this piece to the poem //I am New York City//, by Jayne Cortez, because the poem made me feel as though the woman was not one entity, rather she was the embodiment of all the beautiful things about New York City. The painting portrays women as being creatures made up all things beautiful, and therefore reminded me of how the woman in the poem was made up of a million beautiful things.

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