Each piece of work is handmade by Helen Musselwhite in her studio in the North West of the U.K. Each piece combines the hand cutting, folding and scoring of a wide range of papers and card that are further worked on to create patterned and textured surfaces. They are then used to build scenes in box frames which are often complex and consist of many layers. This process means that each item of work is individual with no two pieces the same.
Vermillion Lake Escape, Banff National Park, Canada
Tufa Towers, Mono Lake, California
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The Arbol de Piedra (Stone Tree) is a volcanic rock formation in the Desierto Siloli in Bolivia.
Bárdenas Reales – Navarro
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Maybe “cute” is not the first word that come’s into your mind when you think about bats, but you have to admit, that if it wasn’t for the horror vampires movies, bats were just another nocturne creature.
There are about 1,100 bat species worldwide, which represent about 20% of all classified mammal species. About 70% of bats are insectivores. Most of the rest are fruit eaters. Very few species feed from animals. Bats are present throughout most of the world and perform vital ecological roles such as pollinating flowers and dispersing fruit seeds. Many tropical plants depend entirely on bats for the distribution of their seeds.
Jan Fabre spent four months, helped by 29 assistants, gluing 1.6 Million Buprestidae beetles on the ceiling of the Royal Palace in Brussels to create the Heaven of Delight.
The beetles are a non-protected species and they were gathered from universities and countries where beetles are considered a delicacy.
Limoges had been the site of a minor industry producing plain faience earthenware since the 1730s. The manufacturing of hard-paste porcelain at Limoges was established by Turgot in 1771. The ingredients were used for the production of hard-paste porcelain similar to Chinese porcelain.
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