Major in Biology

By: Scott


Mutation 2002

Natasha St. Michael lives in Montreal and works with beads. The inspiration for her current work is cellular development, growth, aging and decay. She collects images of pathogens and cellular clusters as source material.

The first step is making small 3 dimensional bead sketches to create the stages of cellular change that she will use in a piece. Once those are honed, she goes into production of those bead units.

The units are made with small lengths of thread to ensure that if one is damaged the whole piece is safe and can be mended.

Once she has generated what she needs, construction the finished work begins. A finished piece may take as much as five months of devoted long days of beading.

Her work speaks of the connectedness and interreliance of cells as they coexist in nature. This helps to remind us that we too are parts of many larger structures in our world.



Fissure 2005


Agglomeration 2005


Carcass 2005

See Also

Flora Alchemy
Sculptural Crochet Primer
On the street: She is Legion