Lepidoptera Domestica (design by Esther de Vries)
Manon van Kouswijk began ?Lepidoptera Domestica? in 2005. The work consists a large number of domestic objects serving as a starting point for a butterfly collection. The book is based on these objects. It is a product of an intense collaboration, and it became an extra element in the project: it explores various aspects of collecting (pleasure and obsession, flea market, Wunderkammer?) and representation (grouping and arranging, uniformity and diversity).