Silencing Eden - my piece finished in February 2019

Materials: linen yarns, paper yarn, metallic threads
Dimensions: 56 x 56 x 2.5cm
Techniques: weaving, knitting and my own techniques

We have a miraculous Garden of Eden on Earth, with an amazing variety of species of flora and fauna, of colours, scents and sounds…
But, as humankind, we significantly contribute to our Eden’s diminishing and destruction.

Silencing Eden expresses my concern over threatened wildlife of all kinds. I have chosen butterflies to feature in my piece, for their beauty and their fragility. They are a symbol of all the species of flora and fauna we are losing (about 150 species daily) due to our ‘cultivation’ of the earthly Garden of Eden… due to our increasing consumption, polluting of the air and water, sterilising the soil, light pollution, deforestation caused by industrial scale agriculture and excessive timber harvesting…

Our Garden of Eden is disappearing before our very eyes. There is less and less music of buzzing insects, beating of wings, wind stirring leaves, singing of birds, calls of animals… Our Eden is getting progressively more quiet…
Can we reverse this before there will be only silence?