This is a heartbreaking story :"(.
Do you remember these paintings from my old posts?
(Click the images to read their stories)
If you are a new visitor to my blog, these are my two textured paintings I made with edible flour.
Well well well.... If this didn't actually happened to me, I would never take note to imagine, such frigging oddity, that my paintings one day became a meal for bugs.
Bugs are savage this summer, especially in my house! I never find out the major reason or any clue of insect nests, although I'd considered about plants we had at home and food we sometimes left outside the fridge.
Anyways, two days ago, I looked close to a painting and I saw a line made up of powder on the counter at the bottom of the canvas.
At first I thought it was paints getting melt because of its poor quality somehow, but as I look closer, I realize that the powder is mixture of acrylic paints and RED BUGS!
GOD! I FOUND THE NESTS!!
The black holes on the figures are the hunks eaten by bugs. They ate the flour and left acrylics behind.
The dark line is left-over acrylic powder after the bugs finished up their "food".
what I circled are two fleshy bugs. you can see how well-fed they had been to grew this buff!
Of course I am VERY, VERY grossed out!!
The first thing I did was SCREAMING, although nobody was home to help. Fine, with my eyes closed tight, I immediately removed it and exposed it in the ruthless Chinese sun, and then I got some camphor balls from super market...
I swear I will take better care of my paintings from now on.
Oh AND! I will remind Shirley about bug prevention!