Walking Weevils

“The Pachyrrhynchus family of weevils is so ornately adorned and intricately arrayed that the casual observer may not realize they are not manufactured. Nowhere else in the natural world are seemingly superfluous decorations so profuse and so man-made in appearance.

This was my impetus in creating a piece that is uncharacteristically organic. I usually prefer the energy of order and symmetry imposed on wildly organic creatures. But these weevils are so synthetic in appearance that it seemed like a stereotype to have them motionless and symmetrical.”
~Christopher Marley

Insects are preserved and displayed in a hermetically sealed (air tight) shadowbox frame.