Category Archives: art
We have met the locusts
Directly challenging the romantic notion of humanity’s ideal union with the natural world, Kate MacDowell‘s haunting and intricate porcelain sculptures are each one worthy as a symbol of our combined dependance and destruction of the world we inhabit. Her portfolio … Continue reading
Katherine McDowell Patterson
Plenty of butterflies and spiderwebs (and vertebrates, if that’s your thing) by Katherine McDowell Patterson
Covered in BEES
In 1981 farmer and beekeeper Ron Fischer answered an ad in a national beekeeping journal seeking a man or woman willing to be photographed with bees by a “world-famous photographer.” That photographer turned out to be Richard Avedon. Here’s a … Continue reading
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Tagged bee, Lara Wilson, photography, Richard Avedon, Ron Fischer
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Insect Ball
Biomorphic glass artist Alexis Berger sent me this lovely vintage illustration to cheer me up during my weekend of flu. I love the attendees, especially the obscure eyed lantern bug in the foreground!
Insects of Hair
“As an artist with a deep interest in sustainable and self-supporting systems, human hair seems the most immediate and true material. I find fascinating the historical implications and various uses of human hair. I am also intrigued with the attraction/repulsion … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrienne Antonson, beetle, butterfly, fly, hair, moth, sustainability
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Monochrome Mashups: Hillier, Ernst and Mad Meg
Though an accomplished painter and illustrator of original works, Dan Hillier has become well-known for his inventive collages sourced from Dover Pictorial Archives, with a dose of Photoshoppery. His Lovecraftian combinations of prim ladies and writhing tentacles has even … Continue reading
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Tagged Amblypygi, art, beetle, cockchafer, collage, cricket, Dan Hillier, engraving, insect, locust, Mad Meg, Max Ernst, Rembrandt, stellanova, wasp, Weevil
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Viktor Pelevin’s The Life of Insects (Жизнь насекомых)
“Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man.” -Zhuangzi Years ago I was thankfully urged to read the novel The … Continue reading
Posted in art, literature
Tagged ant, cicada, literature, Marianna markaki, Mikhail Bulgakov, mosquito, moth, Russia, scarab, Viktor pelevin, Yulia Medveditskova
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Beetle on the Brain
My friend Clear alerted me to this lovely skull made entirely of beetle images, by none other than Noah “Skulladay” Scalin, who says of it: “I made this piece as a proposal for a client, but as it was nearing … Continue reading
Hocus Locust
tumblr “permalink” tumblr Image: Working out some kinks in the wordpress image posting. There seems to be some disconnect between tumblr. What better way to do so than with some insect art? I’m glad you agree! uploaded from my computer: … Continue reading
The Insect Art of Laura Schlipf
Scratch some insect art and you find a swarm underneath. A found image of beautifully carved insect legs led me to the work of versatile artist Laura Schlipf. Being a fan of insect legs as an art theme, I hunted … Continue reading
Posted in art, insect
Tagged art, bee, flea, grasshopper, Laura Schlipf, locust, sculpture, wasp
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