Tag: antpainting
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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…
Horace Zeng 