In July 2001, we were invited by Boréal Art/Nature to research and
do the pre-production for a new web project, based on graphic work of Ernst
Haeckel,
a 19th-century artist and biologist (1834-1919).
Original objects and natural phenomena discovered and observed on site at
La Minerve, Québec are digitized with a video camera and scanner
onto a portable computer. The juxtaposition of these elements are grouped
into a series of 2D computer studies for the web, including animations,
video and text, inspired by the progression of associative and fomal lithographic
works which make up the KunstFormen der Natur series elaborated by Haeckel
from 1899 to 1904.
Our fascination for this portfolio of strange and beautiful imagery, usually
invisible to the naked eye, touches upon the symbolic world which celebrates
life and while reconsidering what nature and its processes can teach us.
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