Entomologist's Garden

The title proposes the garden seen from the point of view of someone whose attention is calibrated to insects, and the print accordingly is dense with small life: beetles, moths, spiders, snails, perhaps a stick insect, distributed across a foliage-and-stem matrix that doubles as picture surface and habitat. Etched line carries the descriptive work — antennae, leg segmentation, leaf venation — while aquatint builds the tonal depth that lets foreground creatures detach from the leaf litter and dappled shadow behind them. The Gardens tag connects it to a recurring frame in her practice: the cultivated plot reimagined less as a human composition than as a shared territory whose ecology the gardener barely registers. The work belongs to her larger ongoing project of attention to tiny neighbours and is among her more populated 2019 intaglios.