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art multiples
David Fullarton [interviewed] is back with a new edition that makes me feel rather slap happy. It’s an artisanal fly swatter. You wield the art object with hand-forged steel,
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plush
Having last captured my heart with an Overly Literal Cat Valentine, Vancouver-based artist Hine Mizushima gives me a smile again with this whimsical Self-extinguishing Firebug. Mizushima needle-felted the creature
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sculpture
Stitch kitsch superstar Felt Mistress can’t be pinned down. Here, she continues to delight all compassionate coleopterists, especially those who’ve been bit by the collecting bug! [Instant rimshot.]
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sculpture
Contemporary crochet artists are a little out of my comfort zone, so please permit me an obvious comparison to help us get orientated. Esther Traugot is like a quieter Olek minus the
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sculpture
Toronto-based artist Amy Swartz combines taxidermy insects and plastic toy parts in an amazing ongoing series called Pest. Her work explores the idea of obsession “not only in the
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resin
Shing Yin Khor (aka Sawdust Bear) seems to be setting up some kind of Wunderkammer at Comic-Con. “They” are trying to contain her at Small Press table P-16, but we’ll
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photography
Man, that last post about Bug Memorials turned out to be more depressing than I thought. I found the antidote in the form of these photos by Belgian
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sculpture
Bug memorials: because even life’s tiniest tragedies affect someone or something out there. The Carmichael Collective, who recently brought us subversive street art, has now staged bug art in four
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sculpture
Tessa Farmer is a London-based artist whose tiny sculptures concern the macabre undertakings of entomological fairies and their biological flying machines. She recently showed creepy, awesome new work
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Art
Admit it. If you’re kinda arty and eclectic and maybe at one point you were also a bit gothy, you like the look of delicately arranged pinned insects.
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