Environmental Graffiti

Steampunk Insects Meet their Mechanical Maker

Insectphobes beware, this is probably the last post you want to read – dead insects pimped with gears and clockworks to make them tick again. Steampunk fans though will get a kick out of Mike Libby’s work who has been creating his insect machines since 1999. Not sure if you love them or loathe them? Read on and make up your mind.

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Plastic Toys Reformed Into Grotesque Art

Kris Kuksi is an artist who almost redefines the word intricacy, and does so recycling toys, figurines, mechanical parts and other thrown away objects and discarded detritus. Like a maestro modelist who’s dabbled with too many mild-altering substances, Kuksi has an outlandish attention to detail, and as such is able to create surreal and macabre worlds, the bizarre quality of which is haunting – even hallucinatory.

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