Calee Cecconi chimesdesign.com
We are in danger of losing more than a third of our known species in the next century. What will nature look like? This piece, and others in the Nature Beyond Recognition series, envisions a future view of nature when humans have altered it beyond recognition—a time when nature may only exist in our collective memory or in our virtual worlds. This series of patterns focuses on endangered and invasive Iowa and Minnesota species, with the pattern format chosen for versatility of future use. To create this work, I altered the "DNA" of images I took of monarch butterflies near the Iowa Lakeside Laboratory using a plain text editor, then layered the glitched butterflies together with mixed physical media.