Works by Alex Konstad
Where do all these movies come from anyway? How do we know Spielberg, Lucas, Sonnenfeld, Emmerich haven’t been visited by aliens? You know, maybe they’re aliens themselves. (The Faculty, 1998)
I am that very witch. When I sleep my spirit slips away from my body and dances naked with the Devil. (The Witch, 2015)
Painting, music, movies, sculpture, theater, everything—we can survive without it. You have to eat, or else you die. Food is the only obligatory emotion
Ferran Adrià
holy shiiiiit every time I think I’ve seen it all in terms of biology there’s still always something new! Look at DENDROGASTER.
These are parasites found only inside of starfish and they are CRUSTACEANS.
There are many parasitic crustaceans who lose all arthropod anatomy as they mature and come out like just a glob of flesh but I’ve never seen one this ornate!
It’d be cool if there were scientific papers explaining these that didn’t cost $50 to access but I have pieced together that these are related to copepods and what we’re seeing are the females, while the males remain in microscopic larva-like forms inside of their mates.
These are all typical characteristics of many other parasitic crustaceans who reduce themselves down to just fleshy masses. There really are LOTS of those.
Performance artist and mixed media sculptor Lucien Shapiro as photographed by Shaun Roberts. Looking forward to Shapiro’s upcoming solo show with us this November!