Thursday, November 8, 2012

Amy Swartz: Pests

For her series titled "Pests", Toronto-based artist Amy Swartz created a series of highly detailed and meticulously crafted miniature sculptures made by combining taxidermy insects and toy figurines. Her work explores the idea of obsession — not only in the practice of art, but also in humanity’s perceived control over nature, life, and death. As R.M. Vaughan wrote, “Swartz makes even the tiniest deaths meaningful (and, yes, morbidly funny).”


 Find out more about Amy's work here.

via [Arts & Science Journal]

Posted by Junkculture at 6:25 AM
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2 comments:

  1. Excellent work, i hope Amy will keep creating stuff like this, it is true that pests create a lot of problems for people and it will be good if they deal with them in a natural way.

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  2. There is no doubt that Amy's work is great but why they have used needles to showcase them, if this person cares so much about pests than i think should have used some other way like sticking them with a glue.

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