Tineola bisselliella Autumn - Collection

© Marthin Rozo
Tineola bisselliella Autumn - Collection, 2010-2022
Photographs and moth cocoons

This ongoing work started in 2010 in a serendipitous way. While tidying up my closet I had the feeling that there was something alive inside my wool sweaters and I started to shake them over a white cardboard. I found a few little tiny oval shapes, which I looked at with a microscope. To my surprise, they were chrysalides made by webbing moth caterpillars from the wool of my sweaters. Each cocoon was from a different colour that matched the one on the sweaters. After this discovery I started to collect the used chrysalides from the little webbing moths whenever they appeared in my house. I was not interested in altering the living cycle of the moths: I just collected the cocoons that had gone through a metamorphosis stage and were now empty.