This article was originally published in UCSB's ' The Current '.
Insects often exist on the periphery of our experiences. They blend into the landscape and soundscape, rarely the objects of our attention.
But an exhibition at the UC Santa Barbara Library draws our focus to these creatures by upending our usual experience of them. “Insects are really small. So I wanted the photos larger than life,” said curator Katja Seltmann, director of UCSB’s Cheadle Center for Biodiversity & Ecological Restoration.