Memorials / Memoriales
A series of large drawings concerned with extinctions of species in the wild. These are the first two drawings, birds and plants, of several that are planned. Mammals, insects, marine life and amphibians are works in progress.
Una serie de grandes dibujos de las extinciones de especies en estado salvaje. Estos son los dos primeros dibujos, pájaros y plantas, de varios previstos. Los mamíferos, insectos, vida marina y anfibios son obras en curso.
Birds – Darwin’s Tree
This tree is becoming a precarious place on which to perch. Species become specimens and shadows. Watercolour pencil and collage on paper.
Este árbol se está convirtiendo en un lugar precario para posarse. Las especies se vuelven especímenes y sombras. Lápiz acuarelable y collage en papel.
Plants – Unravelling
This drawing was inspired by the introduction to David Quammen’s book The Song of the Dodo. The degradation of ecosystems is compared to the unravelling of a richly beautiful Persian carpet. It is based on an ancient Kazakh floral pattern carpet. The flowers in the carpet’s design have been substituted for stylised versions of endangered plants. The ‘carpet’ is becoming faded in parts and beginning to unravel ….
Este dibujo se inspiró en la introducción del libro de David Quammen, La canción del dodo. La degradación de los ecosistemas se compara con el deshilachado de una hermosa alfombra persa. Está basada en una antigua alfombra kazaja con estampado floral. Las flores en el diseño de la alfombra han sido sustituidas por versiones estilizadas de plantas en peligro de extinción. La “alfombra” se está descoloriendo en partes y comenzando a deshilacharse…
Watercolour pencil on paper. Lápiz acuarelable en papel
Insects – Little Creatures
The world is losing so many insects. Here there are twenty insect species depicted among plants, contrasted with a human made pattern based on stained glass windows. Pequeñas criaturas. El mundo está perdiendo muchísimos insectos. Aquí, veinte especies de insectos se representan entre plantas, contrastando con un patrón artificial basado en vitrales.
Watercolour pencil on paper. Lápiz acuarelable en papel
Heritage is a set of 12 printed postcards displayed in a postcard rack. Reproductions of paintings from a Western cultural heritage were digitally manipulated to form two sets of postcards, Excision and Restoration. In the Excision series, a wild animal is cleanly removed from a painting as an analogy to the loss of species from the natural world. There are few depictions of wild animals in Western art so the Restoration series adds, or restores, an animal to an ‘environment’. Excision – Delacroix, Rousseau, Hessalius, Cranach, Landseer, Marc. Restoration – Manet, Van Gogh, Gainsborough, Cezanne, Botticelli, Monet
Display rack of postcards
Yvonne Elvin 