I am far too tired from the holiday weekend to churn out a real blog entry today. Instead, I will leave you with this photo I took at the Indianapolis Art Museum last Sunday. From across the gallery it looks like a normal plate.
But upon careful inspection…yes, there are BUGS painted on it! Insects crawling on the dinnerware!
I don’t know if I should be grossed out or awed by the cleverness.
Reminds me of this piece of work:
http://www.msdlists.com/surrealism/images/full%20size/Dali%20Persistence%20of%20Time.jpg
Though, this version is kinda cute:
http://www.mountlehmanllamas.com/dali-llama-time.jpg
(Dali Llama)
Whoa. Cool. This reminds me of bugs trapped in amber – my favorite jewelery. My boyfriend thinks I’m nuts because I like bugs in my earrings.
Victorian enthusiasm for natural history in action!
I don’t find the bugs particularly offputting. If they were butterflies, I’m sure nobody would turn a hair…
That’s even grosser than a wing nut in spaghetti! :)
I don’t normally have a problem with bugs on dinnerwear, but that one bug looks too much like a cockroach to me. *laughs* I’m not sure that I could eat food off of the plate if I paid too much attention to that. lol
Totally awed.
LOL – my dh is an entomologist (bug guy) so we have bugs in the freezer, bugs in boxes around the house and garage (dead and alive), oh it’s a jungle out there! Pretty good eagle eyes, pegging those little fleet feet! Hope you had a great T’giving weekend!
An artist with a sense of humor!
I love that.
until I can afford that I shall stick with my plastic skull and cross bones set.
That is beautiful! What a neat idea… and it is nice to know that someone was “stepping outside the box” even when appearing to conform to traditional Victorian standards. And yet with such grace! There is a lesson there…
The earliest diet-plate?
haha ew!
for those who are afraid and on diet, this dishware is best for them. haha