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• 1 media/Bees in dragonfruit.png 2021-04-21T19:03:01-07:00 Servarbugfolgenate: an ecoconcept 8 image_header 2021-04-23T21:57:28-07:00

  I have been obsessed with the concept behind the action of close-observation. My research into electroreception had me at many moments picturing scientists holding up the large, thick lens of a magnifying class observing, surveying, and contemplating in a sort of bee-driven tunnel vision. I myself participated in this close-observation through the lens of my iPhone as I captured footage of bees dancing in my dragonfruit plant. While sitting on the back porch with my MacBook working on research for this very project I watched a cabbage butterfly fly by in front of me. There was an urge I felt to stand up and try and cup it in my hands, a game that entertained me as a child for hours. I thought of all the moments I’ve craned my neck upward, squinted into the bright sky, while following the trail of crests and troughs a butterfly weaves as it floats in the air.
  

  
  
  Servarbugfolgen:

  (Noun)

  the state of trance you enter when you watch an insect (spider, beetle, butterfly etc) closely: such as when watching a spider spin their web, following a butterfly as it floats across the sky, watching a bee pollinate inside a flower, or watching the last struggle of a moth before its death.

  Servarbugfolgenate:

  (Verb)

  to watch an insect (spider, beetle, butterfly etc) so closely that one enters a state of trance: I servarbugfolgenated by the dragonfruit plant again this morning|she didn’t finish her homework because she servarbugfolgenated on a moth dying on the windowsill.
  
  

  • Servare (Latin): watch over
  • Bug (probably Middle English): insect, beetle. A word now obsolete since ‘insect’
  • Folgen (German): to follow

  There is no reason for why I chose ‘bug’ to represent the ‘creepy-crawly’ universe other than because I think it is a fun word. I think the word ‘bug’ even looks like a small beetle, the 'b' is the head and antennae and the 'g' rounding off the small curved body.
  
  - Steph Philipov, z3417828