French Wood Polyphyla Fullo

Speckled beetle with fan-shaped antennae floats in a deep black box.

This polyphyla fullo is from France, and is contemporary. It is wood & glass. Insects make up over two-thirds of all known living organisms, roughly 1.3 million species, and the article notes that many more are probably still undocumented, waiting to be discovered. Rounded brown beetle with cream mottling across the wing cases and a dark head carrying feathery, fanned antennae. Six legs are tucked in, and it is pinned in the middle of a glass-fronted frame in black. It is 3.5 inches wide, 1.75 deep and 4.25 high.

Tiny, patterned, and framed like it expects a gallery review.