Curious Caterpillar
(and its NeverEnding Search for the Eternal Sun)
a lurking shadow ruffles
on the path of slow impatience,
while the light reflects its wisdom
and is craving to be seen
Human Nature
Human Nature is my ongoing series inspired by the all-encompassing force of evolution and its emotional reciprocity. Woven stories wherein the rich natural world fluently intertwines with complex human behaviour. Born from my fascination for psychological, cultural and societal patterns, I explore the (mytho) logical roots of these behaviours within nature itself. A search for acceptable explanations for the mostly chaotic path as it happens.
Abundant celebrations of blossoming beauty comprise contrasting realms while translating the fragility of life. The desired transition of current times is accentuated by shifting toxicity towards compassion, ego towards us, darkness towards light and fear towards love. In all of this, we are only human nature.
From digital to tactile
For Curious Caterpillar I collected and selected around 200 images. I cut-out, re-colored, adjusted and merged various elements of these images to create the blossoming composition. Thereafter I translated the complex multi-layered digital artwork to Jacquard-fabric by implementing various weaving techniques while keeping in mind the Jacquard weaving method, built up from eight colors only.
Curious Caterpillar contains (parts of) images made by: melanie-kreutz – aaron-burden – a-a- – allen-hu – carlos-rodriguez – claudius-virciu – daniel-lloyd -blunk – fernandez – di-maitland – fazil-abi – gidlark – hush-naidoo – jade-photography – jirasin-yossri – dave-hoefler – joshua-j-cotten – kelly-sikkema – kent-banes – lilartsy – lucas – lucas-WhIyc – luka-kirkitadze – marsha-reid – max-andrey – matthias-oberholzer – melanie-kreutz – michael-c- mika-ruusunen – mohsen-bagherzadeh – qu-nh-giang-van – rosalie-baker – sandeep-kumar-yadav – shahir-shah – stephanie-klepacki – tjaako-minnema – vista-wei – wolfgang-hasselmann – annie-spratt – bruno-neurath-wilson-FIy – christina-deravedisian – daniel-schludi – laura-arellano – margaret-jaszowska – mockup-graphics – visnu-deva – amy-baugess – bankim-desai – boris-smokrovic – david-clode – dustin-humes – bill-fairs – danilo-batista – haci-elmas – imagen-station-WMlFl – jiri-plisti – joshua-j-cotten – sahil-muhammed – sandy-millar – william-warby – cristina-glebova – kelvin-ball – krzysztof-kowalik – steve-harvey – maxwell-ingham – aj-joy – erik-karits – joshua-j-cotten – suzanne-d-williams – many unknown global artists from the open-source platforms Rawpixel and Unsplash. Thanks to all these generous people! And thanks to nature, the main source of all.
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