Description
Ladybirds visit our balcony sometimes. Luckily! Because aphids do, too.
This work was supposed to be very minimalistic – four shapes that make up an insect. However, the nursery rhyme on Ladybird I know from preschool started running through my head and I thought – well. So she also got antennae, dots and the sun.
(There’s nothing about the fire in Polish version! It goes like ‘Ladybug, Ladybug, fly to heaven, bring me a slice of bread’ because words for heaven and bread rhyme in Polish and that was what one would say helping the bug to start off from ones’ hand)
I don’t know what such a ladybird can bring; I hope it brings you good memories and the warmth of summer.
‘Ladybird’ is part of the ‘Life, from the balcony’ collection, which you can also read about on the blog.
This is an original, hand-made collage on beautiful light-cream Lefranc Bourgeois Paris paper with a weight of 150. I painted the paper used for cutting with oil ink, which I also use for linocuts. I made 6 copies. Each of them is in a sense unique – the copies are slightly different from each other because they are hand-painted, cut and glued.
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