Buzzing after my trip to the Lapworth yesterday, I can see so many connections and feeling refueled and totally inspired! Very taken by the case of trilobites think they look like shoe prints although that does depend on the shoe. There were fossils too that looked like delicate, detailed drawings these may influence my zines. In my head, a correlation is emerging between forensics, imprints and carbon (I’ll quiz the scientists about that after the weekend).
Definitely going to be investigating coral more closely there is a type which strangely resembles the human brain and another that looks like veins. I wander if the museum has wax models of these that they may use for teaching, so I can get a sense of them in 3D.
It was great too, to see installations by artists from the ‘Black Arts Florum’, what they responded to in the collections and the space. My personal favorite was ‘Sangoma Colours’ by textile artist Pauline Bailey. I noticed her piece immediately upon entering the museum and think she’s perfectly emulated the vivid, rainbow coloured mineral Bornite.
