These bug-themed images began life very simply – as random mirrored silhouettes created using…. wait for it… the ‘insert random shape-maker’ tool in Powerpoint. I was looking for a starting point with minimum finesse or creative promise: much like an ink splash or accidental ring of coffee.
After that, I was able to take the silhouettes into Premiere Pro (film-editing software), where there are some disparate techniques I’ve learned to combine in some interesting ways—but not to produce moving images. Rorschach’s inkblots—our prompt for The Kick-About No. 125—always put me in mind of those museum display cases containing pinned specimens of insects, so with that in mind I went about creating some specimens of my own.
And a few further iterations…
Red's Kingdom 
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