The subject is rebuilt entirely from things that are not its own material: other objects, foods, plants, creatures or textures, chosen per image, such as fruit, flowers, cutlery, toys, machine parts, stones, shells or fabric. Each piece stays readable as what it is up close, while the subject's silhouette, proportions and pose read clearly at a distance. Works for any subject: people, animals, objects, vehicles, food or buildings. Faces keep true structure; eyes are one fitting round piece with a natural highlight; hair, fur and feathers are repeated small pieces following the direction of growth. Soft studio key light. The subject alone on a clean ground. No logos or lettering. Here every piece is an obsolete electronic part, circuit boards, ribbon cables, keys, chips, wires and cracked screen glass, in oxidized copper, black and muted teal. A cicada in a square frame: a cicada with a broad head, two large round eyes of small round capacitors, a segmented body of stacked green circuit boards and four long wings of cracked screen glass with fine wire veins, resting on a pale ground.
Light: soft studio key light with copper glints on the boards and cool reflections in the cracked glass; palette of oxidized copper, black and muted teal; delicate, brittle, precise.
Square 1:1 frame, centred composition with breathing room on all sides. One subject alone on a plain pale ground with a soft contact shadow, no text, brand names, readable markings, lettering or logos on any part.
