Yes it does Jo. By coincidence, I’m reading an Artlink on Phenomena … has an article on Insect Media with examples of Dean Christ’s cyborg-like beetles and butterflies.
The editorial also mentioned something I’d read years ago about ‘live’ jewellery. In Victorian times, women would fasten exotic beetles to gold chains on their bodices, as living brooches.
March 25th, 2012 at 17:14
What a beautiful creature with its iridescent exoskeleton! It almost looks mechanical.
March 26th, 2012 at 09:34
Yes it does Jo. By coincidence, I’m reading an Artlink on Phenomena … has an article on Insect Media with examples of Dean Christ’s cyborg-like beetles and butterflies.
The editorial also mentioned something I’d read years ago about ‘live’ jewellery. In Victorian times, women would fasten exotic beetles to gold chains on their bodices, as living brooches.