Eye of Narcissus
a false light echoes
on the lake of endless pain,
where the fear plays out the fearful
and the weak are to be blamed
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 Eye of Narcissus 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.
Eye of Narcissus contains (parts of) images made by: jeffrey-hamilton – susan-wilkinson – leonardo-yip – paul-moody – Marcel vD – Jong Myung Lim – barbara-kosulin – Heidi Samuelson – Charles Gao – Katelyn Greer – Haley Owens – Markus Winkler – Anton Maksimov 5642.su – Anna Meshkov – Brett Jordan – Brittney Watson – Jenny Thalheim – Yoksel Zok – Ginger Jordan – Henryk Piela – Christopher Paul High – Andriyko Podilnyk – Henry Lai – Jason Leung – Yousef Salhamoud – Jenny Thalheim – Kier in Sight Archives – Natalie Kinnear – Natalia Gusakova – Catrin Ellis – 2happy – Public Domain – Pixabay – Wikimedia Commons – Flickr – Mustang Joe – Bernard Spragg – Filio – Silberfuchs- Harald Landraths – Ftanuki – Marta Wroblewska – Neeraja Shaji – Jong Myung Lim – Pixel 2013 – 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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