Micro and Macro: part two

Butterfly charts:

Micro and Macro: Part one.

Define Macrocosm:
From Greek 'makros kosmos' meaning great world.
i) a complex structure, such as the universe or society, regarded as an entirety, as opposed to microcosm, which have similar structure and are contained within it.
ii) and complex entity regarded as a complete system in itself.
Define Microcosm:
From Greek 'mikros kosmos' meaning little world.
i) aminature representation of something especially a unit, a group or place regarded as a copy of a larger one.
ii) man regarded as epitomising the universe.

For this project I chose to look at winged insects, practically butterflies, moths and dragonflies. I was very interested in to structure of the wings and how they aren’t just made of one part; they are made of millions of tiny scales, like little pixels which create the amazing colours and patterns seen on both butterfly and moth wings, and sometimes also dragonflies.

From here I perceived the project as being about a link between the large and small, which led to an interest on how the patterns and you could say ‘eyes’ on butterfly wings are used to make them seem larger or even like a completely different species. To me this was the link between the small (the scales; patterns) and the large (the eyes and disguise given).

I looked into Tracey Bush’s butterfly paper cuts and decided that I wanted to use mainly just the silhouettes of the insects layered with the different images and patterns I created from my studies.