Noted: Jennifer Angus, who teaches textile design at the University of Wisconsin, became an amateur entomologist in the course of creating her â??Victorian Fancyâ? series of dollhouses and installations. She builds scenes of perfect domestic felicity, but all the patterns on the walls, floors and furniture are arrangements of beautiful insects, and all the characters in the dollhouses are insects, too â?? electric-green beetles from Thailand, locusts from French Guiana with spectacular wings of purple and blue, striped weevils, polka-dot weevils, leaf mimics, white cicadas and frog-legged beetles that look like their name. â??I wanted to create a pattern that suggests a domestic space,â? she said, â??but of course the one thing people donâ??t want in their house is insects.â?
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