Mike Libby makes amazing Steampunk inspired sculptures by combining real insects with mechanical parts from antique watches.
Unique art created using non-endangered specimens from all around the world celebrates the contradictions between technology and nature.
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Ninja Egg :D
These r soooooooo cool! Steampunk stuff is so cool! Next will probably be people. And that would look cool too. :D
Aug 12th, 2011
Darrell
EVERYTHING looks good steampunked! Even dead bugs! It’d be even cooler if the gears and all actually made the bug move or something.. but.. its just for looks. :P
@Ninja Egg :D Ewgh. I hope no one does that to people! That would be too disturbing.. It would be really gross/creepy with animals actually. ex. dogs, gerbils,.. zebras… ugh. Hope they dont do that..
Aug 13th, 2011
ccc
It’s awesome, but what would make it more awesome, is if they actually walked around/flew ^^
Aug 13th, 2011
WTF
Bit sick doing that to real bugs.
Aug 13th, 2011
BAM
Insects wearing watch parts. My take was that human technology has a way to go to compare with the complexity of nature.
Aug 13th, 2011
Dominic
Cool designs
Aug 13th, 2011
BNT
what are these things?!!?!!!
Aug 13th, 2011
Frederick
I find these a little disturbing… eugh.
Aug 13th, 2011
Me
I’m with the “meh” crowd on this. The insects are cool and intricate enough by themselves. Jamming a few random watch parts into them really doesn’t do anything for me. Now, _entire_ bugs made out of watch parts – sure – those are cool. This just seems like somebody’s 3rd-grade steampunk art project. They just need to glue macaroni on them and paint them gold now…
Aug 13th, 2011
van
Step 1: Get dead bugs.
Step 2: Glue random clock pieces to them.
Step 3: ????
Step 4: Profit.
Aug 13th, 2011
GBLUE
Technically a scorpion isn’t an insect, but it is my favorite. They are arachnids, like spiders.
Aug 13th, 2011
poya
can they fly?
Aug 14th, 2011
Denis
not cool. those were living beings once. their life was not worth less just because they are “primitive” animals
Aug 14th, 2011
Josephine
Reminds me of this guy I came across in the UK …
http://www.deanpatman.com/
Less disturbing for those who don’t like the use of dead animals/ insects.
Aug 14th, 2011
nidia
Its rather disturbing thinking of these bugs used to be alive and now turned into these kind of steampunk thing. but still these are bloody fantastic!!!
Aug 14th, 2011
Ron
I don’t think there is any moral issue with using/killing animals. After all, the first thing God did after Adam fell, was to kill a lamb to make them clothes with, and demanded animal sacrifice. Jesus helped his disciples catch a whole boat load of fish, and ate them. We should be careful of making a moral issue out of something God doesn’t.
Aug 15th, 2011
VinceVega
It’s art and the insects/arachnids are dead. But I must add I don’t give a damn what the Bible, or the Quaran, or any other purported holy text says about anything.
Aug 15th, 2011
Nikki
awesome
Aug 16th, 2011
Bonnie Walters
I belive it is
1.Slightly disturbing; yes.
2. Absolutely fabulous mechanism
Thus I Bonnie Walters conclude that this design whatever it may be, it rox!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Aug 17th, 2011
iyas
nice
Aug 18th, 2011
ps
Most are quite creative, I used your scorpion for one of my laptop Home screens, ( of course it has superimposed altered and mixed with other photographs) I also do not take credit. No one but me sees them.
I like your work. I do not understand the negative comments.
Thank you for sharing.
PS
Jun 11th, 2016