Hugs not bugs
Ceiling pics from Angelos.Be
A couple of weeks ago, I started reading a new (for me) design blog called Doorknob . Like just about everything new and interesting I find any more, I found @doorknobdesign on Twitter. Doorknob is run out of New York and it's the project of a man named Kurt Kohlstedt. He finds some great things, give him a peruse the next time you're looking for some inspiration.
Anyhow, he became tweeting about a exceptional ceiling he'd found the alternative day and I observed his hyperlink lower back to the tale. I changed into floored by using it. Bah dum bum. Yes, I become floored with the aid of it. Here are the photos he ran.
Pretty cool, huh? That ceiling is an installation in the Royal Palace in Brussels and it's the project of an artist named Jan Fabre .
It gets higher. Here's a near up shot of the ceiling and you may truly see how textured it is.
Even nearer. Guess what it's made from.
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That ceiling is a mosaic, for lack of a higher term, made from the shells of 1.3 million jewel beetles. Jewel beetles are participants of the own family Buprestidae, and the precise Buprestid right here is Sternocera aequisignata from Thailand.
Thai bugs
S.aequisignata is a food source in Thailand and Fabre set up a cottage industry in Bangkok to gather enough beetle shells to make his ceiling. Beetle shells that would have been discarded get upcycled here in every sense of the word. Along the way, some people who's lives aren't real fun got to make some money from what would have been their garbage. That's what I call a win win and the result is some downright arresting art.
So what do you think? Did Fabre usher in a new era in the decorative arts? Will we see beetle shell ceilings in the US any time soon? I can't wait to find out. Thanks Doorknob!