Video: Steampunk insects. Sculptures by Insect Lab
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Why do people collect herbariums, stamps, insect collections? Is this a hobby, you say? And sometimes it’s good business. If, of course, the businessman-collector has talent and imagination. Like the American sculptor Mike Libby, whose Insect Lab studio turns dried insects into cute little robots.
Initially, Mike Libby himself was engaged in collecting bugs and spiders, but when all his own exhibits turned into steampunk-style robotic sculptures, he needed "new victims". And then he connected his friends, relatives, colleagues, acquaintances, colleagues, clients and fans of his work to work, who brought him dried flies, midges, crabs, crayfish, squid and other trifles with paws, antennae and wings for creative operations of the Insect Lab studio …
Thanks to the help of friends and colleagues, Mike Libby has a unique collection of steampunk insect robots that "came" from Mongolia, Australia, China, Japan, Egypt, New Guinea, Brazil, the United Arab Emirates, African states, tiny ocean islands and other, most different parts of the planet, where you just can't go for a walk.
By the way, the collection of mini-sculptures made by Mike Libby from dried insect carcasses is still growing.
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