Easter Work

After crit I thought about how to improve my stamps over Easter and push them that bit further. I decided that the butterfly was giving out the wrong message, it was not conveying what I wanted it to so I stripped it back and decided to work with just a butterflies wing. I wanted it to be about the fragility of nature against the destruction of our environment. I chose 4 common Irish butterflies and collaged each wing out of material that we should be recycling. I used aluminum cans, brown bags, black sacks and newspaper.


 Possible backgrounds..

I decided to go with the wood to mimic a collector with pinned butterflies. 

I flipped two of these so that there would be two left and two right wings in the set.