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Jennifer Angus

The American Scholar
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Jennifer Angus
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Jennifer Angus has been turning dead insects into art ever since taking a trip to Thailand more than 20 years ago. There, she came across a version of a singing shawl made by the Karen hill tribe, with green metallic beetle wings used for its fringe. Before that moment, she “had never thought of insects as being beautiful beyond butterflies,” she says. “I like shiny things—I have these magpie tendencies—and I was just blown away by these beetles. I found myself getting more and more interested i

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