Artrocity Studio observes that insects (as well as other critters) evolved exterior colors, patterns, and shapes as camouflage to hide from predators.

What if insects continued evolving their camouflage for an urban environment? These insects have done so: an M&Ms bug, a Lottery Ticket moth and a scratch ticket butterfly; and a "FOUR LOCO Pregame Sour Blue Raz" beetle.

They are literally...litterbugs.

Trash picked up while on bicycle rides; wire (legs, antennas), air soft plastic BBs -- also found on the ground (eyes), and gobs of Elmer's Glue.

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Artrocity Studio presents its latest hybrid critter, combining an Australian sugar glider (a marsupial similar to a flying squirrel) and a Guernsey cow to make...a cream-and-sugar glider.

I imagine someone on a deck, reading a book when a large shadow passes over them. As the person looks up, a 1,000 pound creature forcefully lands on the lawn and starts grazing...

Paper mache, wire, glass beads for the eyes; acrylic paint and fixer.

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Artrocity Studio presents the second of a series of "flying fish": a pufferfish hot air balloon. It will be part a future mobile of various light-than-air fishes.

Balloon, paper mache, marbles (eyes), cardboard (gondola), and over 400 toothpick tips for the pufferfish spikes. Acrylic paint and fixer.

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Artrocity Studio presents the first of a series of "flying fish": a clownfish derigible. It will be part a future mobile of various light-than-air fishes.

Paper mache fish body, plastic bits from eye drops (engines), plastic bits from flossers (engine strut/extender); acrylic paint and fixer.

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Artrocity Studio presents its latest creation for children of all ages: "My First Pop-up Book of Giant Squid." The final product is over six feet (two meters) long.

Repurposed children's thick cardboard picture book, paper mache, colored poster board, acrylic paint and fixer.

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Artrocity Studio presents the second in a series of dioramas featuring Snuggles the Sock Puppet. This time Snuggles visits a small farm in Ames, Iowa.

It doesn't end well.

We don't know where Snuggles will go next, but mayhem seems to follow.

Cardboard except for paper mache (Snuggles), two plastic beads (for Snuggles' googly eyes), and tiny bits of wire (for the ill-fated cows' tiny, tiny legs); acrylic paint and fixer.

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Artrocity Studio presents the sixth and likely last of a series of snails that for inexplicable reasons have household appliances on their backs instead of shells. The final snail has a washing machine. In a somewhat naughty move I put a red sock on top of a load of white clothes.

Wire, cardboard, paper mache, plexiglass for the lid. Acrylic paint and fixer.

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This morning, I was in my living room when I noticed the usual chattering birds at our feeders were suddenly silent. They had all cleared out because a red-shouldered hawk appeared on the scene. The hawk stuck around for about five minutes, resting and preening, before it moved on and the regulars returned to their breakfast.

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