I am spellbound by the way nature finds its way in all the little places, even of the most hardest environments: the city. Animals, plants, fungi and the little creepy crawlers even there know how to find a place to live and thrive in these strange rocky places where humans have created many caves they call home.
I find that magic!
I am also very interested in how human culture merges, fights, collaborates and mingles with nature.
One thing is for sure: In the long run, nature always wins over human culture.
There are too many sites where we dig up the physical remains of a once thriving culture which does not exist anymore.
In my art I try to make this visible.
I also have a very irregular blog: https://www.catweazlemagic.nl/blog.html
Projects
- Shrew CowThe Common Green Shrew Cow (Microelephantis lonquesia) is the proof that dwarfing is not something wich only happens on a few isles in the Indonesian archipelago, but also on the Hebrides. Where this very small eliphant skims the rocks in search for algae, mosses and seaweed to graze on. Materials: steel, mirror glass, synthetic ruby.
- The KrocomaduraThe Krocomadura ( crocomadura sp.) grows on only on the boggy fields of the litle isle Maupikatikadat. Which is, as a matter of facts, part of the Tua Moto archipelago in the Pacific Ocean. This plant forages mainly on white mice and hamsters, which it grabs with a quick sideway brush of it's flower. The herein shown specimen is originaly collected by Captain Cook. It surveyves already 265 year in "The natural history museum' of London, on a diet of water and labratory mice. Materials: glas, p
Skills
- 3D CAD
- Blender 3D
- Basic Metalwork
- Metal Fabrication
- Welding
- 3D Printing
- CNC Milling