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This week Joseph and Nathan are joined by Marissa Macias, a local artist and fashion designer who owns the insect-inspired clothing brand Petrichor, to discuss insect aesthetics. They begin by examining 7 of the ~30 extant insect orders: hymenoptera (ants, bees, wasps), odonata (dragonflies), coleoptera (beetles), orthoptera (grasshoppers, crickets), mantodea (mantids), lepidoptera (butterflies, moths), and heteroptera (true bugs). Amongst other things they discuss Chicago’s recent dual cicada brood emergence, how insects appeared in pre-modern still lives because of their association with death, and how decline in insect biomass could result in systems collapse and a sixth extinction.
Links:
https://www.petrich0r.com/ (online shop)
Petrichor (Instagram)
Marissa’s Neurobasis Kaupi Are.na Channel
Carravagio’s Basket of Fruit
Durer’s Stag Beetle
Eating Bugs to Save the Planet by Dana Goodyear
The Collapse of Insects By Julia Janicki, Gloria Dickie, Simon Scarr and Jitesh Chowdhury
Earth Is Not in the Midst of a Sixth Mass Extinction by Peter Brannen
Ocean Trash Is a Lifesaver for Insects by Daniel Strain
Artwork:
Neurobasis Kaupi by Marissa Macias
Recorded on 7/10/2024
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