Vik Muniz

This piece is part of a collection called "Lovebugs," and was created in 2014. Most of Muniz's pieces were beautiful and seemed to tell an intricate story in his style and choice of medium. This one caught my eye because it felt the exact opposite. This is a literal representation of the title in such superficial terms. I had actually laughed when I saw this piece, which is not the usual emotion when looking at art work. Even more interesting was the fact that each of these six piece is priced at $2,000. This adds to the irony of the work, since someone would literally be paying for a picture of bugs on paper. Vik Muniz speaks about his pieces and states that it would not be interesting to "demonstrate the suffocating sameness of representations" as other artists do. His pieces are definitely unique.