Jose Van Loon is a textile artist from the Netherlands. Visit her webpage: http://www.josevanloon.nl/, and facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jose-van-Loon.
From her webpage (this is Bing-translated from Dutch):
"I'm trying to turn inside out,
the material is converted into a symbol,
that each one for himself can translate to a new interior."
This art speaks to me of how the wild is viewed by humans, the proprietary nature of humans, moments and breaths caught for analysis, threads binding ancient with modern, the poetics of science. Each piece is an artifact that still lives. Tangled ghost houses under glass. Categorized and labeled. Silent and proper. And infinitely beautiful.
Below: Make process of Caterpillar, Cocoon and egg-shapes, based on existing butterfly species. Here "the Miller", right at the bottom of the insects acronicta leporina, box (2010, sewing thread and silk).
And my favorite:
Wegdromen (Daydream)
MIRI
