Insects in Decor

I adore anything insect. Today, Apartment Therapy included a link for Ant'ique, which is a wallpaper that won the "New Walls, please! 2007" design competition hosted by the German Design Council and A.S. Création. At first glance this wall treatment appears to be a classical baroque pattern, but on further inspection, the design is composed of thousands of ants. This reminded me of a piece I saw in the "Installation/Innovation: Textile Art in the 21st Century" exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Craft + Design. It was an installation that included an amazing wallpaper covered in beetles.

Artist Colwyn Griffith

I was looking at the Modern Contemporary Art blog today and came across the artwork of Colwyn Griffith.

Griffith creates these diorama like installations and then photographs them. I especially like his I Can’t Believe It’s Not Empire series where he "investigates the multifarious nature of empire" by "blend(ing) domestic craft, sculpture and architectural set design with heavily processed, multinational-produced junk foods to emphasize a new empirical reality of corporate colonization."

Pictured at the right is his Great Wall, 2004 which is made of rice cereal.