Testimony
Supporting the void
Art Media Agency, November 2025
Meet artist John Knuth, who paints with flies. He orders maggots online, raises them, and then puts them in mesh enclosures with a canvas at their feet — feeding them acrylic paint and sugar water to create his abstract paintings. It’s all part of a fly’s natural digestion system which causes them to regurgitate their food, creating speckled spectacles.
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