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    Beatles and their habitat “finding beauty in the beetle”
    (UMT, Lhr, 2021-08) Maryam Waheed
    Beauty is anything that causes pleasure through our senses. The perception of beauty is subjective to everyone as one has to have an eye to capture and find the beauty in the most unexpected and surprising places or beings. Beetles belongs to a phylum Arthropoda under the Animal Kingdom. We interact with this tiny insect on almost daily basis but we fail to pay any attention, as a human in this modern world we have been trained to experience things through sensations and something as small as a beetle sometimes fails to leave an impression in this fast-pacing world. Man, usually admires the beauty that he finds around him in the nature but sometimes we forget about the diversity and complexity with which our universe was fashioned. Every day we are struck with the discovery of some new object or specie with a fascinating structure and morphology. Just like Allah Almighty has created everything in this world with great attention to the detail, He created something as small and meagre as a beetle with even more elaborate detail. It’s just that our naked eyes sometimes fail to pay attention on the mesmerising surfaces and textures found on these beetles. To fully see the extent of their beauty and intricacy Beetles must be studied carefully. My work plan mainly focuses to understand the morphology, intricacy and the surface of these beetles and to convert these textures and patterns into textiles with different set of techniques and skills that were taught to me in my four-year degree programme. A lot of designs including open compositions and repeats will be created by manual sketching and Photoshop using elements form the primary research of the different beetles. The whole research process will be discussed in depth in this report along with all the experimental work and attempts of initial sketches of designing the artworks from scratch till the end. The end result of this research project and the expected outcome will have a display of four main products together with all the work done including the samples. This work will consist of many unique textile patterns and designs which will be extracted from the extensive study of beetles to highlight the beauty and the minute details found in this organism.