Husk is probably based on a Middle Dutch word huusken meaning 'little house’
By the end of November most plants and trees have completed their autumnal senescence. The ground is covered in dead and decaying leaves; the hedgerows and margins populated by the skeletal remains of flowering plants and the desiccated husks of seed heads.
My objective with this project has been to take the tiny autumn discards and by photographing them in a particular way reveal their structural beauty and elevate them from invisible to undeniable. To confront the viewer with a complexity that one would normally associate with a piece of sculpture, or jewellery. But unlike a Fabergé egg or a Giacometti figure, the material itself is worthless; the form is extraordinary.
In botany, a husk (or hull) is the outer shell or coating of a seed. The other botanical term for a seed casing is Calyx, from the Latin calix which itself comes from the Ancient Greek κάλυξ (kálux) meaning "husk" or "pod".
Husk can also refer to the exuvia of insects or other small animals left behind after moulting.
