Tessa Farmer's Macabre Insect Art

How shall I describe Tessa Farmer’s artwork? Well, for one, she uses insects as a central part of her minuscule sculptures:
Tessa Farmer’s miniscule sculptures reinvigorate a belief in fairies: not the sweet Tinkerbell image in popular conscience, but a biological, entomological, macabre species translating pastoral fable into nightmarish lore. Constructed from bits of organic material, such as roots, leaves, and dead insects, each of Farmer’s figures stand barely 1 cm tall, their painstakingly intricate detail visible only through a magnifying glass.














