natalieejean: proofmathisbeautiful: lickystickypickyme: This ceiling is made of  beetles. 1.6 million, of them. Or Buprestidae to be precise; a family of the insect which are more commonly known as Jewel Beetles. This incredible ceiling art - known as Heaven Of Delight - can be found at the Royal Palace in Brussels and was the brainchild of controversial Flemish artist Jan Fabre, a man renowned for working with strange media including blood, sperm and all manner of insects. Apparently it took Fabre’s team of around 30 people 4 months just to glue the beetle shells to the ceiling. To read an interview with the artist, go here. via Instead of covering my walls with lithographs of bugs, I should just skip the middle man and cover my walls with the actual bugs.

natalieejean:

proofmathisbeautiful:

lickystickypickyme:

This ceiling is made of  beetles. 1.6 million, of them. Or Buprestidae to be precise; a family of the insect which are more commonly known as Jewel Beetles.

This incredible ceiling art - known as Heaven Of Delight - can be found at the Royal Palace in Brussels and was the brainchild of controversial Flemish artist Jan Fabre, a man renowned for working with strange media including blood, sperm and all manner of insects. Apparently it took Fabre’s team of around 30 people 4 months just to glue the beetle shells to the ceiling.

To read an interview with the artist, go here.

via

Instead of covering my walls with lithographs of bugs, I should just skip the middle man and cover my walls with the actual bugs.

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