Category: Collections
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Art Seris 2 – The Ants’
– This is an ongoing art project by Horace Zeng and Eva Guo – Ants are known to construct massive and underground elaborate nests. The excavation of large subterranean nests requires collective efforts to pick up and transfer soil particles. This behavior breaks down to the simple action series of picking up an object, carrying…
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Art Series 1 – Fire Ant Painting
Apparently, ants can “paint.” These paintings are done by letting a “ball” of aggregating fire ants (S. invicta) walk along with acrylic paint drops. As the ants diffuse outward, they create an exploding graphic pattern. Using different castes/sex/sizes of ants, we can get very different patterns. Each painting is thus infused with the ants’ instinct…
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Dark skull lamp
Two years ago I found a deer skull in a forest and I have been wanting to make something out of it. Now I finally have some time to play with it, so here is what it becomes. It will serve as my lamp for as long as it can. ha. >Materials: Female deer skull,…
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Bike part sculpture
A deer monster sculpture head made with bike parts for my friend at campus bike shop (to be continued)
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Crafts (2015)
This is a series of crafts of “insect-transformer-steampunk-display”, inspired by various artists such as Mike Libby, Justin Gershenson-Gates, Tom Hardwidge, Edouard Martinet, & Christopher Conte. No.1 [Landmark] Material: dried insect specimen (Chalcosoma Caucasus beetle), blue LED light, wires, battery, solder, watch parts, camera parts, random found items, acrylate gule Sold …
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