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Motif · motif_moth

Moth

A nocturnal winged insect, drawn wings-spread like a butterfly but with heavier body and feathered antennae. Attested as a working subject by an interviewed traditional artist. OPEN QUESTION: no fetched source states a meaning for the moth; the death's-head reading commonly assumed for it is not sourced here and is therefore not asserted.
Thin
Medium confidenceresearched

0 attested · 5 promoted1 source · T2

What the research says

motifs_seed
Category
animal
Variants
wings spread; luna moth; death's-head moth
Common styles
american traditional; blackwork; dotwork
Common themes
nature
Composition behaviors
bilateral symmetry across a midline

Provenance

1 resolved

  • The lines of Traditional by Mors (opens in a new tab)

    Tier 2

    Maggie Whales interviewing the tattoo artist Mors, Tattoo Life

    Artist interview. The interviewer describes the subjects Mors tattoos as "roses, skulls, eagles, panthers… and mandalas"; Mors himself lists his classic design panel as "tigers, panthers, snakes, roses, mandalas, torch, eagles" and says "I do love animals in general: big cats, tigers, panthers, eagles, snakes, moth." A practising artist naming a working motif vocabulary in his own words - used for motif EXISTENCE and style association only, never for symbolic meaning, which the interview does not discuss.

    artist interview · published 2024-04-15 · retrieved 2026-08-29

Related concepts

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Frequently used in · 3

  • → outgoingAmerican TraditionalStyleThin
    strength 0.50promoted · not an independent attestationresearched

    Promoted from motifs_seed.common_styles of motif_moth ('american traditional'). No new fact: this edge restates a value already present in the corpus. STRENGTH 0.5 set by the T11.11c rule: this pairing is asserted by ONE parent row's association column and by no second row; the pack's scale reads 0.5 as 'context-dependent'. Inputs are corpus counts only - no source count, tier or confidence is used.

  • → outgoingBlackworkStyleThin
    strength 0.50promoted · not an independent attestationresearched

    Promoted from motifs_seed.common_styles of motif_moth ('blackwork'). No new fact: this edge restates a value already present in the corpus. STRENGTH 0.5 set by the T11.11c rule: this pairing is asserted by ONE parent row's association column and by no second row; the pack's scale reads 0.5 as 'context-dependent'. Inputs are corpus counts only - no source count, tier or confidence is used.

  • → outgoingDotworkStyleThin
    strength 0.50promoted · not an independent attestationresearched

    Promoted from motifs_seed.common_styles of motif_moth ('dotwork'). No new fact: this edge restates a value already present in the corpus. STRENGTH 0.5 set by the T11.11c rule: this pairing is asserted by ONE parent row's association column and by no second row; the pack's scale reads 0.5 as 'context-dependent'. Inputs are corpus counts only - no source count, tier or confidence is used.

Associated with · 1

  • → outgoingNatureThemeThin
    strength 0.50promoted · not an independent attestationresearched

    Promoted from motifs_seed.common_themes of motif_moth ('nature'). No new fact: this edge restates a value already present in the corpus. STRENGTH 0.5 set by the T11.11c rule: this pairing is asserted by ONE parent row's association column and by no second row; the pack's scale reads 0.5 as 'context-dependent'. Inputs are corpus counts only - no source count, tier or confidence is used.

Supports composition · 1

  • → outgoingSymmetricalCompositionThin
    strength unstatedpromoted · not an independent attestationresearched

    Promoted from motifs_seed.composition_behaviors of motif_moth ('bilateral symmetry across a midline') [class EC]. Source is the supporting concept, target the composition, mirroring placement_supports. No new fact: this edge restates a value already present in the corpus.