Category Archives: art
Jo Whaley book signing April 7th at The Bone Room
If you live in the Bay Area and love insects, there is no excuse for not visiting The Bone Room in Albany. Ron and Diane Cauble have created a curiosity cabinet of undisputed excellence- a miniature natural history museum full … Continue reading
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Tagged Amber, Jo Whaley, photography, Science, The Bone Room
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machine insects
A series of simple yet enjoyable xerox-machine mashups on Nicolas Lampert’s gallery: from the 2005 MASS MoCA show “Becoming Animals” (I must state that above critter is not based on an ant, but since it’s a fantasy creature we’ll give … Continue reading
Arthropod Ammunition
Lovely article about Tom Hardwidge‘s ammunition-and-clockwork insect creations from a recycling blog. Not only are they beautiful, he has given them their own taxonomy! Adding scientific names to anything always strikes a chord with me, so here are some of … Continue reading
Posted in art, insect, spider
Tagged beetle, clockwork, grasshopper, insect, Rosa, sculpture, spider, steampunk, Tom Hardwidge
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Stick Insects
I totally dig the wooden wing details in Kyle Bean’s matchstick insects. Even more enjoyable than the above photos by Owen Silverwood, fredbutlerstyle has some lovely in-progress shots of the dragonfly.
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Tagged butterfly, cockroach, dragonfly, Kyle Bean, Owen Silverwood, sculpture
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Cocoon Day
It’s a cold day to stay in and do taxes and bills, and my thoughts turn to one of my favorite themes in insect art, the cocoon. Here is one of several delightful cocoon sculptures by Kari Ann Olstad, And … Continue reading
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Tagged cocoon, cold, Kari Ann Olstad, science tarot, Tammy Stellanova
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Your Mandible Expectations
Mike Libby adds watch parts to beetles and other insects, hollowing out their abdomens and adding watch gears, sewing machine parts, and other mechanical items to create a pleasing, sometimes even plausible, clockwork insect sculpture. His site the Insect Lab … Continue reading
Posted in art, insect
Tagged art, automobile, beetle, Ernst Junger, Mike Libby, Ray Bradbury, Scot Bain, sculpture
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“In everything there are particles of all things”
Anna Pinzari and Chantal Corso have a delightful gallery of paintings from 2008 depicting butterfly wings at such a close range that they become abstract arrangements of colored rectangles. Butterfly and moth wings are covered with tiny scales that give … Continue reading
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Tagged Anna Pinzari, art, butterfly, Chantal Corso, Fields, painting
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