View a selection of digital images in the Yale Center for British Art's online catalogue
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/orbis:10113670
Classification:
Three-Dimensional Artifacts
Notes:
"The images in these reference books are amazing ... The beetles were larger than life size which in some ways makes them less frightening. They also have a sweetie-like quality in their brightly coloured appearance. I wanted to play with the juxtaposition of knowing what they are (harmless, paper cut-outs) that have somehow come alive and are burrowing their way out of the book. I hope it evokes a suspension of disbelief ... The negative spaces left in the books once I have cut the images out are equally as important as the images themselves. It is amazing to me that a 2-dimensional image can be given so much life just by cutting it out."--Artist's statement.
Exhibition History:
"Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower" : Artists' Books and the Natural World (Yale Center for British Art, May 15, 2014-August 10, 2014)
Subject Terms:
Beetles -- Pictorial works. | Paper work -- Great Britain -- Specimens. | Altered books -- Specimens. | Women in natural history.
