Avant l’éclosion
Before hatching
Avant l’éclosion (Before hatching)
Botanical ink on washi paper
2026
27 x 42 cm
oak wood frame: 40 x 60 cm
I want to take you into the blue world
It feels like being underwater
after a long sleep with the mushrooms
we swim through wet spring air
the fertile dancefloor
flower stalks and buds swing upwards
filled with anticipation
Let yourself be tickled by all these little legs,
by floating strands of silk and droplets
Barely born and already lived in
a crab spider swooshes down on the canopy
A beetle crawls up a stalk
and a glowworm larva wanders off
beneath the chamomile, and rosebay willowherb
A mother spider holds on to her egg sac
that is about to burst open
We stand in front of them, quietly
as flower buds burst open, too.
A light blue dream of spring, and all the little signs that tell us that everything is about to bloom, hatch, and come to life