Painting and Poetry: A Reading at Hollis Taggart Downtown
November 13, 2026, 6–9 pm
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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