The Creeping and The Wise: How the metamorphosis of animals in Scottish folklore and fossils became a recipe for glass.

Anne Vibeke Mou

A blog piece for National Museums Scotland.

“From a 355-million-year-old fossil to a contemporary glass sculpture, this artwork was a long time in the making. Here artist Anne Vibeke Mou describes the process of working with our curators and collections to produce The Creeping and The Wise, a piece that explores the space between folklore and natural science.”

Published October 25 2021 by National Museums Scotland.

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