A butterfly’s antenna is club-shaped with a long shaft and a bulb at the point. The end of the style of an African protea flower happens to look identical. For botanical artist Chris van Niekerk, his work is all about finding these examples of similitude in nature. Using leaves, seeds and other plant materials, van Niekerk meticulously combines and assembles them, metamorphosing his foraged finds into insect forms.
“I call my insects ecoskeletons; it’s a