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‘Adornment’ is inspired by the painting ‘Trompe -l’oeil’, a menagerie of exotic birds by Dutch 18th century artist Abraham Busschop, painted on the ceiling of Dordrecht Museum, one of the oldest art museums in the Netherlands. In that painting he depicts Aesop’s fable about the raven who was robbed of the stolen feathers that he decorated himself with. Each feather is an individual detailed study, and no two feathers are the same. The colours of my wing are also inspired by that painting, where I enlarged several parts of it and stitched each individual feather with those colours and compositions in mind.
100 × 120cm
This piece was made for Collect 2025