Sang

For the record, I don’t like bugs. My old roommate calls this disease “city-ism,” but I blame my fear of creepy crawlies on lingering childhood trauma that still to this day causes me to run from the room whenever a daddy longlegs gets too close. But also, for the record, Sang‘s bugs don’t freak me out. They resemble critters like earwigs and flies in their appearance, but they’re creatively made of bits of, well, for lack of a better description, whatever. Whatever meaning tool parts, wheels, even lettuce. One of his flies appropriates toy airplane wings for its own, and a beetle has red and blue electrical wires for antennae. I guess I should be creeped out by the use of doll parts for the arms and legs of these insects, but they’re done in such a whimsical way it’s hard to feel threatened. Sang is a Korean artist who lives in Brazil, and his work isn’t just limited to just bugs; he’s got comic-style people under his belt too, and animals. From Sang I’ve learned you can definitely get over your fears by changing your perspective. So come here, you daddy longlegs, you…