For the ‘Song of Bees’ project Annemarie Maes developed with the TextielLab, she translated her ‘Sensorial Skins’. These are ‘skins’ that are spun from cellulose by bacteria during the fermentation process.
Annemarie Maes is an artist and researcher. For the ‘Song of Bees’ project she developed with the TextielLab, she translated her ‘Sensorial Skins’. These are ‘skins’ that are spun from cellulose by bacteria during the fermentation process. They look very much like real skin – down to the lines and wrinkles – and are also referred to as ‘vegetal leather’. Photos of these skins, coloured with vegetable dyes, were digitalised and woven on the jacquard loom. The three resulting works – a pink, orange and green fabric measuring 175 x 225 cm – consist of several fragile, transparent layers that imitate the skins’ tactility
