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PAINTS WITH FLIES Watch on Instagram

@artists.pages.daily on Instagram, August 5, 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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