Video: Garbage bugs. Miniature sculptures of The Litter bug by Mark Oliver
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
If you look closely at the moths, dragonflies, flies and other insects that make up the collection of miniature sculptures The litter bug, you can be sure that each of us has repeatedly observed them at home or in its vicinity. The bugs from this collection are created from everyday, pretty worn out and spoiled objects or parts of it, which were discarded by their owners as garbage, trash, junk. Using all kinds of similar waste, from old books in thick bindings, ending with shards of broken glasses, broken toys, parts of mechanical and electrical appliances, the British artist Mark Oliver and makes his unusual insects that look like tiny robots. Describing his art project, the artist points out that these bugs are extremely resourceful creatures, possessing, if not intelligence, then ingenuity. And this is confirmed by their appearance, which indicates that all these insects have perfectly adapted to life in the harsh modern environment of the century of innovative technologies and scientific and technological progress, and feel great in a rapidly changing urban landscape and hectic life of a noisy metropolis.
As part of the Litter bug series, Mark Oliver classifies each innovative insect with the same innovative creative name that often reflects the types of materials they are made from. Thus, The Prophet Moth consists of fragments of the cover of the Bible, the Conductor Bug consists of old metal gears and, accordingly, copper conductors, and many torn pages of the old encyclopedia became the basis for the body and wings of the Reference Moth.).
A series of miniature sculptures of unusual insects is a long-term project of the artist. From time to time, it is replenished with new copies of bugs and moths, made from the most unexpected details. You can see the entire collection on the website of the art project The Litter bug.
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