Tiny finds with great ambition

It’s a good thing that I usually quickly forget HOW MUCH work is involved, especially in collages of this size – here 60 x 80 cm. In the middle of this work, I tend to lose faith in my own stamina. But then, step by step, centimeter by centimeter, I simply continue with the finest lines. In the end, I am amazed myself when I actually look at my finished work weeks and months later.

With a fresh zest for action, I started this collage here in good spirits. After months of tiny works, I can say that with over 500 individual miniature sculptures, it was once again an exciting challenge. Each bizarre insect creature in this collection is a unique individual and indispensable in the big picture. And more will follow. I will do it again…

Every element, no matter how small, is part of the whole. I don’t want to miss a single fragment.

A number of bizarre and banal finds are brought together here in a new perspective. Once again, I have done my best to compile what I believe to be correct in as unscientific a manner as possible.

All insects have six legs! All the objects in this collage also have six legs. So all the objects in this work are insects? Not really. You could call that a logical fallacy. The art world calls it ‘creative freedom’.

The truth is: on closer inspection, there is (almost) no insect here at all. Honestly. Because things are not always what they seem. Everything here is well camouflaged. That’s why this work is also called mimicry

Pine cone scales, shards of porcelain, chocolate wrappers, electronic waste, willow catkins, nutshells and all sorts of other trivial things. I could also list the remains of tablet packaging and found buttons. All newly found together on woven paper strips. I cannot guarantee the completeness of this list. Every time you look at it, you notice something else that your eyes hadn’t expected.