(c) 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 color 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.
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 color 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.
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Tineola bisselliella Autumn - Collection
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June 02, 2022, 17:00h
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