{"id":450,"date":"2011-09-08T11:17:48","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T18:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/?p=450"},"modified":"2011-09-08T11:17:48","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T18:17:48","slug":"moths-under-my-nose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/?p=450","title":{"rendered":"Moths Under My Nose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing an unfortunate trend in local insect-related art shows that I have missed, here are some works from Bay Area artist <a href=\"http:\/\/analabastida.com\/2\/Artist.asp?ArtistID=5407&amp;AKey=ST568YEK\">Ana Labastida<\/a>.\u00a0 Her installation &#8220;Pullulate&#8221; is just one of several works involving moths and swarms, and was recently on display at the aptly named <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swarmgallery.com\/gallery\/exhibitions\/Bloom_and_Gloom.htm\">Swarm Gallery<\/a> in Oakland. All her works are made out of recycled materials.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"Ana Labastida, Pullulate, 2011\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6206\/6030256193_f3d5c292cc_z.jpg\" alt=\"Ana Labastida, Pullulate, 2011\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ana Labastida, Pullulate, 2011<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 436px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Ana Labastida, Pullulate (detail), 2011\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6065\/6030811088_0992cf38a1_z.jpg\" alt=\"Ana Labastida, Pullulate (detail), 2011\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ana Labastida, Pullulate (detail), 2011<\/p><\/div>\n<h6><em>Who doesn&#8217;t love moths with eyeballs? Find me that person, if you can. I know <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eyespot_%28mimicry%29\">predators don&#8217;t like them<\/a>, but I think they&#8217;re keen<\/em>.<\/h6>\n<div style=\"width: 422px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Ana Labastida\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lamadesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/ana.labastida.1.jpg\" alt=\"Ana Labastida\" width=\"412\" height=\"365\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ana Labastida, Drive in the dandelion fields, 2009<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 438px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Ana Labastida\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lamadesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/ana.labastida.3.jpg\" alt=\"Ana Labastida\" width=\"428\" height=\"493\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ana Labastida, I have the certainty of being like the Summer, 2009<\/p><\/div>\n<p>To prevent future gallery attendanceFail, I have taken the advice of culturevore <a href=\"http:\/\/engineersdaughter.typepad.com\/\">Engineer&#8217;s Daughter<\/a> and am now keeping a closer watch of art-announcement sites like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.happenstand.com\/\">Happenstand<\/a>. I am determined to catch all insect art in the butterfly-net of my retinas!\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/insectgod_Vtiny.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-359 alignnone\" 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>Continuing an unfortunate trend in local insect-related art shows that I have missed, here are some works from Bay Area artist Ana Labastida.\u00a0 Her installation &#8220;Pullulate&#8221; is just one of several works involving moths and swarms, and was recently on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/?p=450\">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":[234,101,235],"class_list":["post-450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-ana-labastida","tag-moth","tag-swarm-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":452,"href":"https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions\/452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}