Video: Behind the Glass: Boxed Worlds by John Dilnot
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
John Dilnot puts his scalpel aside and looks over his glasses. "I like the idea that these are closed worlds, separated from our world only by thin glass." On the wizard's desktop, you can see one of these "closed worlds" that he just mentioned. It is a wooden box with 80 colorful butterflies fluttering inside. "They're actually moths," John clarifies. All of them are made of paper, and before that they were drawn and cut by hand.
The process of work, including at different stages the use of tweezers, a scalpel and a drill, is, according to John himself, rather painstaking. Each box is one of a kind, the second one cannot be found. This testifies to the master's love for detail and, oddly enough, for repetition: after all, the theme of nature as the main force that inspires John passes from work to work.
All images are hand-drawn and screen-printed for rich, crisp colors. When a leaf with a dozen or two of butterflies or birds dries up, John starts cutting them out. Then each element is glued to the box or fixed with bolts. And the boxes themselves, despite the fact that they seem to be wooden, are actually covered with paper with a pattern imitating wood. The master drew its structure from wooden floors in his own studio.
John Dilnot's works explore our relationship with nature: how we perceive the world around us, how we represent it and, ultimately, how we influence it. Although the author does not deny that in recent years, people's awareness of the state of the environment has been growing, nevertheless, this topic continues to be the main one in all of his works.
John Dilnot was born in the British city of Margate (Kent). His works are in many private and public collections, for example, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum (London), the British Library.
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