Andrea Wolff – Unnatural Selection – Art Photography
Feb 4th, 2009 by Brad
Andrea Wolff has posted images from her new series on her website. This series is a comment on bioethics of things we can do now and in the future.
Chalcosoma Romalea 2008 copyright Andrea Wolff All rights Reserved
She writes:
- Like a well-meaning researcher, I started out exploring the wonders of nature, then I learned to repair nature, then I began to perfect nature. It was a slippery slope that led me to begin recreating nature. Yeats said, “A terrible beauty is born.” My terrible beauties were not born, but fabricated to be photographed.
She gets actual insects from scientific supply houses creates these new “sculptures” and then shoots them with a 4×5 field camera and sepia-tones the prints in the style of the 19th century, when scientists were debating Darwin’s theory of evolution.
Darwin’s Birthday is February 12. It will be the Darwin’s 200th Birthday on February 12, 2009; it will also be the 150th Anniversary of the publication of his famous book, On The Origin of Species.
See more images from Andrea’s website at:
http://www.andreawolff.com/portfolio/unnatural-selection.html
Artist statement at:
http://www.andreawolff.com/portfolio/statement-unnatural-selection.html
