Collecting insects in the studio (1990)

Skowhegan School of Painting and Drawing, Maine

The insects in Maine are different than the one’s I grew up with in California. Each day I’d find a group of dead insects in my studio – I collected them, built a box and brought them to New York.

A yellow wooden case with its glass lids opened, every compartment full of moth wings and insect bodies.
A yellow wooden case with its glass lids opened, every compartment full of moth wings and insect bodies.