Woman Flying a Butterfly Kite

Woman Flying a Butterfly Kite is Nellie Mae Rowe walking uphill on a road flying a kite in the shape of a butterfly. She is barefoot, but as the spiritual has promised her, she will get her shoes in heaven. She leaves the empty chair behind, walks past the water, heads toward the green pastures and the heavily fruited trees (phallic, with testicles–shall heaven provide Rowe with a compatible mate, and children, things life denied her?).