"hairs" to insects!

Adrienne Antonson has an interest in two things that might not seemed connected at first: Human hair and insects.  Hmm... how to put these together in to one artistic practice?

Viola - make bugs out of cut bangs.

The Huffington Post reports of Antonson's work and its connection to ethics and material sustainability, as well as of course bugs. Her method of making these insects makes me think of the fly lures that people tie for fly fishing.  SAIC faculty Joseph Grigley did a nice piece on that topic for Cabinet magazine a little while back...

Read about and see a slideshow of some of this  work here ~

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