In A Terrible Beauty, Jennifer Angus reflects upon the warmth and comforts of home, travel, storytelling, and the human compulsion to form collections and to induce order where the potential for disorder is overwhelming.

Her installation at the Textile Museum in Toronto consists of some 15,000 tropical insects pinned to the walls in elaborate wallpaper designs. One of the a printed wallpaper pattern is based on 18th-century toile de Jouy textiles, where bugs enact playful pastoral scenes.

Gallery of images.
The exhibition runs at the Textile Museum in Toronto until May 14, 2006.

Via Yahoo.
More creations inspired by the Toile de Jouy: Timorous Beasties’s Glasgow Toile.
Related: Insects art exhibitions.