Religiously Revered Statue Is Made Of Thousands Of Different Insects

Although not often, there have been a handful of artists that have made use of insects when creating their masterpieces. It would be hard to find a single example of one of these insect-obsessed artists that is more talented than Yoneji Inamura.

This particular artist constructed a one hundred and fifty centimeter statue of the god of mercy. However, this particular statue was constructed with rhinoceros beetles, stag beetles, cicadas, drone beetles and many other insects. The statue took a painstaking five full years to complete. Each of the thousands of different insects that he used to build his statue had to be dipped one at a time in an antiseptic to prevent the insect corpses from decaying. At one point the insect-inspired artist was assembling his creepy statue outside, but the sun reflected off the dead insects backs so intensely that it was blinding. Since that time he took his creative endeavor to a dark shed. The statue is currently on display in the city square of the Gunma Prefecture in Japan in case you want to take a gander at the twenty thousand-bug statue for yourself.

Do you consider killing insects for artistic purposes constitutes inhumane treatment towards animals?