{"id":386,"date":"2011-08-22T12:15:37","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T19:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/?p=386"},"modified":"2011-08-22T12:15:37","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T19:15:37","slug":"the-uncomfortable-insects-of-sarah-garzoni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/?p=386","title":{"rendered":"The Uncomfortable Insects of Sarah Garzoni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We frequently use insects as tools in industry, science, art and agriculture. We keep them as pets, kill them for clothes, and patent their genes. In that uncomfortable vein is a great collection of insect-related works from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarahgarzoni.com\/\">Sarah Garzoni<\/a>. Though some of her most powerful and provocative works involve vertebrates such as upholstered pigs and shark-tooth corsets, insects get their fair share of complicated attention:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"nike\" src=\"http:\/\/u.jimdo.com\/www20\/o\/sfa274df86da755d7\/img\/i03aa49de8a4e87b3\/1279134228\/std\/nike.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"393\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sarah Garzoni, Nike (from Mim\u00e9sis), 2002<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Camouflage\" src=\"http:\/\/thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/butterfly-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"430\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sarah Garzoni, Camouflage (from Mim\u00e9sis), 2002<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Sarah Garzoni, Mim\u00e9sis, 2002\" src=\"http:\/\/thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/butterfly-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sarah Garzoni, Cibles (from Mim\u00e9sis), 2002<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarahgarzoni.com\/projects\/mim%C3%A9sis\/\">Mim\u00e9sis<\/a>, butterfly wings were run through an ink-jet printer, than re-assembled and pinned. The art-dork in me is amused by one with this signature:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 399px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"R.Mutt\" src=\"http:\/\/u.jimdo.com\/www20\/o\/sfa274df86da755d7\/img\/ia02b97cc63afd6cb\/1279134229\/thumb\/d%C3%A9tail.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"389\" height=\"246\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sarah Garzoni, R. Mutt (from Mim\u00e9sis), 2002<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 605px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Sarah Garzoni, Rh\u00e9a, 2008\" src=\"http:\/\/u.jimdo.com\/www20\/o\/sfa274df86da755d7\/img\/ie5bcfb1f10ef0015\/1279156670\/std\/image.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"595\" height=\"425\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sarah Garzoni, Rh\u00e9a, 2008<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarahgarzoni.com\/projects\/rh%C3%A9a\/\">Rh\u00e9a <\/a>is a beautiful melding of stick insect and plant life, held in check under a glass dome.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 605px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Sarah Garzoni, Homo-Faber, 2006\" src=\"http:\/\/u.jimdo.com\/www20\/o\/sfa274df86da755d7\/img\/i6fa8ace4a572dd41\/1279138141\/std\/homo-faber.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"595\" height=\"479\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sarah Garzoni, Homo-Faber, 2006<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I must admit a certain jealousy to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarahgarzoni.com\/projects\/homo-faber\/\">this last one<\/a>, as I have sketchbooks from college of much the same thing: Swiss Army knives that sprout forth specialized insect appendages! But like any good unrealized (and perhaps somewhat simplistic) idea, I&#8217;m pleased it was actually made manifest, and with skill and humor.\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/insectgod_Vtiny.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-359\" title=\"insectgod_Vtiny\" src=\"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/insectgod_Vtiny.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We frequently use insects as tools in industry, science, art and agriculture. We keep them as pets, kill them for clothes, and patent their genes. In that uncomfortable vein is a great collection of insect-related works from Sarah Garzoni. Though &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/?p=386\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[32,52,518,226],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-beetle","tag-butterfly","tag-phasmid","tag-sarah-garzoni"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":389,"href":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions\/389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}