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“To be returned to display case ASAP.” I don’t know when those words were written, but clearly these poor specimens never made it. As a followup to yesterday’s post I thought I’d post a photo of the destroyed cockroach specimens that inspired Sarah Swist’s paintings. I don’t have a photo of the two unit trays that fed her muse, but these four are from the same series. The vast majority of this damage was done by other (living) cockroaches. Witness the frass they deposited all over the room that housed these unfortunate specimens:
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The giant turds on the note in the first photo are an especially nice touch. Fortunately no other specimens or collections were affected.
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