Dead Fly 45 "45"

Dead Fly 45

"45"

mixed media

    This one took a lot of engineering to actually create. As rapidly as people are coming and going from the current administration, I kept having an image of the White House and those in the administration "dropping like flies." After all, it is the cliche we use when people come and go quickly. It is a glass globe 6” in diameter filled with a solution of mostly clear glue and some distilled water. The dead flies are made of Fimo and wire. I used cellophane packing tape for the wings but after trying them out in the clear glue, realized that the wings became invisible. Off to Dollar General for translucent nail polish! That worked. I needed just the right mixture of white glue and water so that the flies would float and fall slowly. I did not make the White House but sent for one from Amazon and a friend of mine with a belt sander, ground it down so that it would fit inside the opening to the globe. A model train shop in Harrisburg had just the right size American flag but I needed a hollow needle to stick it in so that I could anchor it to the base. A local tattoo parlor was kind enough to give me some. 

Now - how to get it inside the globe and create a stopper? I went to the Resilite athletic mat making factory in Sunbury, PA and they gave me a scrap of resilite from the dumpster.

Tip it upside down and the flies drop like flies. A statement on a certain administration.