Original artwork description:

Leaf 2 examines how natural forms adapt to modern industrial landscapes through a process called Industrial Melanism.

This process refers to the evolution of dark body colours in animal species that live in habitats blackened by industrial pollution. The phenomenon has been documented in numerous species that hide from predators by blending in with their backgrounds. Peppered moths provide one example, and my Leaves another.

Materials used:

Paper collage on card all cut by hand

Tags:
#collage #botanical #collage art #nature print #environmental 
Leaf 2 (2016)
Collage
by Benjamin West

£485

  • Collage on Paper on board
  • One of a kind artwork
  • Size: 30 x 42 x 0.25cm (unframed) / 16 x 27cm (actual image size)
  • Signed on the back
  • Style: Collage
  • Subject: Flowers and plants
Original artwork description
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Leaf 2 examines how natural forms adapt to modern industrial landscapes through a process called Industrial Melanism.

This process refers to the evolution of dark body colours in animal species that live in habitats blackened by industrial pollution. The phenomenon has been documented in numerous species that hide from predators by blending in with their backgrounds. Peppered moths provide one example, and my Leaves another.

Materials used:

Paper collage on card all cut by hand

Tags:
#collage #botanical #collage art #nature print #environmental 

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Benjamin West is a multi-disciplinary artist using nature as his main inspiration. Through the mediums of collage, photography, sound, film, and scanography, his practice examines our ever-changing relationship with nature,... Read more

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