If you ’re look for art that yield you that creepy - crawly flavour , expect no further than the work of Jennifer Angus . The creative person has fashioned a alone pattern for some vivid pink walls , reach the distance smell as though it ’s covered in wallpaper . It ’s only when you take a tight facial expression that you realize the pattern on the rampart are made of bugs . This unusual interior decoration currently insure the walls of a room at theSmithsonian ’s RenwickGalleryas part of its debut expo , WONDER . The gallery had antecedently closed for overhaul but will be back ( and filled with bugs ) November 13 .
The induction — which will be up until July 10 — is called In the Midnight Garden . In total , the room feature approximately 5000 weevils , green stag beetles , cicada , and other insect . The wall have been dyed pinkusing a washfrom a cactus - abode dirt ball from Mexico . The insects involved all come from sustainable and ecologically - sound sources , and are re - used by the creative person for each installation . Each species Angus uses is abundant in area like Malaysia , Thailand , and Papua New Guinea . They are preserved and positioned , but otherwise not modify or painted .
Angus is currently a prof of apparel and textile design at the University of Wisconsin – Madison . She was inspired to operate with insect after a trip to Northern Thailand to study local fabrics , where she learn an article called a " singing shawl , " which had tassels adorned with green metallic mallet wing . By using bugs as a mistaken wallpaper stateside , Angus hopes to promote people to reconsider the part insects playact in our life .
All images good manners of Ron Blunt , the Renwick Gallery .
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