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Artist Name: Martin So
Title: After Moth
Medium: Digital collage
Year: 2020
Artist Statement:
The moth, an insect once hatched will have only a short time to live. Some moths have the ability to consume food, but most are hatched with no proboscis—unlike humans, with our lust and demands, they exist solely to reproduce and that’s it. It is to me both fascinating and romantic. Nature always has its particular way, everything dies after giving birth to new life. Moths contain a poignancy about nature. In this work, the moth is surrounded by trees, a representation of nature itself, with rusted metal of the anthropocene beneath.