As this is my first post I thought I would give a little insight into my practice. My work often takes subject matters which provoke disgust, or a negative view in society, and treats them in a way which is at once aesthetically pleasing and horrifying. I have decided to focus on moths as I love this contrast between this idea of the beauty and the beast, the 'beautiful' butterfly and the 'ugly' moth, and to diverse from the negative connotations which moths carry. I want the viewer to experience both beauty and horror simultaneously, by seducing the viewer into a familiarity and then to be jolted out of that comfort.
An image I created by layering acetates of enlarged photocopies of moths.
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