about ecomoth and me

inspiration and motivation

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my present photographic/digital work has been a journey into really unearthing what is intuitively valuable to me; a quiet, connection to the natural world expressed through my collection of  her small, often overlooked treasures. it is a large, obsessive collection that maps my travels through time and physical space in southern africa where I live in zimbabwe. it embodies my ideas of beauty and grows daily as an endless source of inspiration.

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these images, photographed and assembled on an ipad, are a big departure from my previous large scale, pastel works which depicted social and historical narratives in local contexts. they started as play  in the very young sense of the word, spontaneous, with no immediate outcome in mind and a lot of serendipity, especially with the digital age. at the point when I began to see their potential as ‘art works’ I also stumbled on the japanese aesthetic ideal, wabi sabi. elusive to define as it is based on transience and being present in the moment it resonated in the following description; “a way of living that finds beauty within the imperfections of life and peacefully accepts the natural cycle of growth and decay.”  an artistic purpose was born, how to present my collection of natural objects in a way that people could see what I valued in them, beauty, imperfection, transience, authenticity.

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my inspirations:

Nature’s infinite wabi sabi, the extraordinary story of evolution, moths, old photographs and medical drawings, the moon, the wild nature of my dogs, birds, kiki smith and mukudzei muzondo's use of pictorial space and time, cabinets of curiosities, my ipad, my feral teenage son, wild weather and anyone doing something to help our planet.

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