Shocked when he discovers the ragged, dusty man existing on dead flies in the garage, Michael enlists the help of his new friend, Mina, for the difficult mission of keeping Skellig alive. (booklistonline.com)
So postmodernism prefers artists to use instantly recognizable objects whenever possible: pickled sheep or sharks are good options, so are crowds of of nude bodies, maggots, skulls, heaps of dead flies, islands wrapped in pink polypropylene fabric and so on. (visual-arts-cork.com)
«Sometimes we were sitting there 12 hours a day at the bench pulling dead flies out of cages,» Tatar says. (sciencemag.org)