Wings - Ongoing

Concept

This series started with translucent objects as lenses and led me to insect wings. At the start of this project I was regularly finding small, dead bees around my apartment in Bangkok. I collected a couple and took photos with a microscope to observe them more closely. I liked that they resembled stained glass when cropped in a photo or viewed under a microscope. From there I began running into bizarre moths and butterflies more regularly right here in the city. I found a gorgeous, almost neon, Rose Myrtle Lappet Moth and used that photo as the reference for my first foray into color pencil compositions.

What began as an interest in the transparency of certain wings has grown to a broader appreciation for all insect wings and a fascination with how and why insects are.

Scope

10 formal pieces, color pencil on illustration board