Fotoreproductie van ornamenten, waarvan twee met insecten 1910 - 1986

This small grey-scale drawing of ornaments, two of which depict insects, was made by an anonymous artist. I love the way this artist renders the insects into beautiful abstract ornaments, and the more abstract ornament in the center is like a kind of bug too, maybe a beetle’s shell, or a pair of mating bugs? The artist is playing with positive and negative space in a dynamic way. They are taking something like a beetle and turning it into an aesthetically pleasing pattern. This is how you can see the world anew by taking something from nature and rendering it anew on paper. There’s a conversation happening between this artist and all of us who pick up a pencil or a brush, or even a digital stylus, and try to capture something we see and feel.