Creep Magic: An Artist Makes Fairies Out Of Dead Insects

Cedric Laquieze is an artist and sculptor from Amsterdam with a fantasy that is astoundingly inventive. One of his most famous series of works are fairy tales that Lakuiz creates from pieces of dead beetles.

By deftly gluing together shells, legs, and other tendrils with wings, the artist constructs from dismembered insects a delightful and slightly creepy-looking puppets that would fit perfectly into the entourage of Guillermo Del Toro’s “Pan’s Labyrinth” or “Hellboy.

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