The Ant Palace

One of three site specific, temporary art works made during a residency in a forest in Yokohama in 2003. The brief was that each piece should be bio-degradable, and I chose to use insects as a means to gradually eat the artwork. I made the structure from green garden sticks and red shoe lace sweets. I had imagined that it would be ants that would eat the work, but in fact insects I'd never seen before came and inhabited and ate it. Working on it in the forest I had to be completely covered and wear insect repellent to protect me from the many mosquitoes.