FROM INSECTS

Coming from a family of beekeepers, I am interested in the viability of utilising insects and their waste streams to create future craft artefacts. Already science is exploring the potential of insects for food production and to satisfy our future dietary needs, however, I am primarily interested in using insects as co-partners in the design process, -rather than consume them I am interested in how we can work with them and explore how their natural waste streams could be harnessed in the production of valuable craft artefacts in the future. Initially, I am interested in two insects that we currently farm, -the common honey bee, which produces propolis, -a natural bio-degradable resin and the Indian silkworm, which discards it’s hard cocoon when it reaches maturity.

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I have worked with the two materials depending of their properties. I developed a lot of glass techniques with the bio resin and made a collection of vessels.

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From Insects is a celebration of the beauty in the use of insect material potentials.

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Created by Studio Marlène Huissoud