If De Quincey evoked “murder as one of the fine arts”, fine arts have always been the locus of animal murders, but that is slowly emerging as a topic of research. Former Young British Artist Damien Hirst is notorious for having caused the deaths of more than one million insects and animals – over a period when the world was putting to death million...
Artist Statement Latticed Stinkhorn is a watercolor piece originally created for the special gallery of the 2023 Scientific Illustration course at the University of North Florida. It was inspired by my enduring fascination with the world of fungi, particularly specimens of the family Phallaceae. This watercolor piece offers a simple perspective of ...
In an essay published in 2007 in the Yearbook for Early Modern Studies , Sarah R. Cohen underlined how magnificent stags or sublime swans, rendered in Jan Weenix’s o r Jan Fyt’s large paintings, became human parables, assimilated to worthy opponents for the hunter in early modern Europe. But while this might be the case for game and birds, very lit...
La deuxième moitié du XVIIIe siècle en Grande-Bretagne est appelée l’ère sentimentale, dans la mesure où, suite aux essais de Locke et de Newton et à l’influence de Rousseau, l’écoute des sensations est encouragée. La conséquence est majeure pour le rapport aux animaux non humains. Si ces animaux étaient fréquemment considérés comme des dieux ou de...
“or to be eaten alive'' is a multimedia exhibition in which I merge my own coming of age story with a mythological ecology. In this work I reclaim my queer identity by communing with my past selves in a fantasy world created through the lens of Queer Ecology and Queer Eco-Futurism. The visuals in this exhibition obscure reality. They are abstractio...
Long Story Short and is a vintage up-cycling art brand. Our mission is to breathe new life into vintage pieces, crafting them into modern wearable art. As the name suggests, each creation tells a story while being revitalized for today’s fashion forward community. Fast fashion and trend cycling has been a growing problem in today’s society. Things ...
I seek out and spend time in relatively wild outdoor locations and create art based on my observations. The resulting work explores time and place, while the creation of the work increases my engagement with the environment. This process serves as a reminder that time is relative and life itself is continuous. I start by finding time in locations w...
This study is the first systematic survey of a large corpus of zinc white (ZnO) artists’ materials. Zinc white is a white pigment developed within the wave of 19th-century technological developments in the paint industry. The composition, particle morphology and size, and luminescence of 49 zinc white samples from artists’ materials were characteri...
Cultural heritage data plays a key role in the understanding of past human history and culture, enriches the present and prepares the future. A wealth of information is buried in artwork images that can be extracted via digitization and analysis. While a huge number of methods exists, a deep review of the literature concerning object detection in v...
