Silk Square

Paper clay,gauze, latex paint, polyester blend

5x3”|2023

Each day I feed my lacewings their fill. Aphids, mites, thrips, and caterpillars. Their wings are most beautiful after about three weeks, the harvesting is done with nets and a rubber mallet. They are relieved their lives in a blinding instant and return to the space between cells. Their corpses are laid now in a great wing made of living glasss.