Many people are grossed out when they unscrew a light fixture and find a menagerie of dead bugs. San Francisco Insect artist Lisa Wood decided to turn the specimens she found into a small work of framed insect art. Check out, what I thought, was an incredible diversity of insects […]
You will never see a dead fly in the same way after seeing Jan Flanigan’s dead fly insect art. In 2012, she began positioning flies on tiny cartoon drawings and photographing them to cheer up a close friend who was caring for her gravely ill husband. She soon had a […]
One of the first manufacturers of framed butterflies and butterfly wing jewelry was established in the late 1800’s in Wellesley MA. By the turn of the 20th century this manufacturer of insect art had gained fame and notoriety around the world. The New York Times gushed over what was called […]