I created this series, “Buggy Bugs,” following a visit to the ResslerArt Studio by a young woman who worked at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. After showing her several recent pictures I’d made in my “Outer Limits” Series and explaining my process, she suggested I check out an experimental technique then trending among young artists — “glitching.”
Glitching employs special software to slightly corrupt digital images, creating misaligned bands and color errors in the files. While I didn’t find the “as-is” end-result particularly useful, I did find a way to adapt the idea to use in conjunction with a number of insect photographs I was collecting in our Penn State-certified Pollinator-Friendly Garden.
