Insectarium Exhibition Artwork - 'The Lost'

Artwork for Insectarium group show catalogue, at Everfresh Gallery, 27th November to 7th December.

Details:
'The Lost'.
130 x 300 handcut paper tapestry, on 280gsm cotton sprite paper.
Featuring a top-down view of fallen dragonfly wings.

This artwork is a hand-cut paper artwork showing dragonfly wings scattered among fallen leaves. The piece uses that image to think about what people leave behind after they're no longer present, particularly smaller details and memories, habits, phrases that become physical reminders of a person. In this papercutting, each shape is cut out of the paper, so the wings and leaves are made by removing material rather than adding it, where the work is defined by what's been taken away. The piece isn't really about loss. It's about what remains after something has passed, how a shape or a trace can stay behind even when the thing that made it has gone

Artwork collection from Everfresh Gallery in Collingwood at the conclusion of the show.