Description
This ltd edition leafcutter ant has developed from a series of work called ‘Home’. This series explores what home is.
‘Home gives us a feeling of belonging no matter whom or what we are, whether it is a nest, house, habitat or ocean. It’s a place to feel safe, comfortable, connected or part of a community. A home provides space for an individual to shelter, sleep and eat in relative peace. For families, tribes or colonies it has the added opportunity to communicate and share knowledge. Whatever organism we may be, we all have a place where we feel comfortable – we know it as home.’
I had reflected on the wildlife around me or that I had seen; like the leaf cutter ants in the rainforest in Peru, marching in a long colourful line taking back the harvest/ ingredients to their nest, the honey bee busy in its hive and the shore crab resting in its rock pool to name a few.
The literal interpretation but on a magnified scale draws you into the fine detail inviting you to look closer at the journey back or in their home, it is capturing the essence of what their home is to them.
I have created a few sculptures base on a photograph that I had taken while I was volunteering in the Rainforest in Peru of a line of Leafcutter ants. Each time I have shown these sculptures people have been intrigued so I have decided to make an edition of 50 of these ants to be bought as indivudual pieces.
