CURATOR’S PERSPECTIVE Tamara Joy, Chief Curator, MoAS It’s a pleasure to finally come to the opening of Stephen’s, Shoosty Bugs, An Art Infestation . I want to echo Tabitha’s thanks to all of my colleagues. We could not do this without each other. So, thank you all my friends and colleagues, and welcome, Stephen Shooster and his wife Diane and the family. I’ve met a one of the daughters and I’m going to learn the other names, soon. Welcome, It’s pleasure to have you all here. We’ve been working with Stephen for more than a year on discussing and planning the show. In the beginning, the staff had been formulating an idea of bugs everywhere in the museum, in a few different, various ways. And as Tabitha mentioned, during these discussions, Zach and Tabitha had already seen some of Stephen’s work. I think everybody just said, you know, this is it. This is the thing the key that will hold it all together, Shoosty Bugs . I was first introduced to Shoosty Bugs by Zach. I don’t know where he got it, but he showed it to us and it’s a big beautiful computer bug, The Integrated Goliath CPU . You will meet him in the gallery later. What intrigued me was this high-tech digitally created image was using silk as a canvas. I’m a textile person, so, you know, that hooked me right away. Just the idea of using this work to integrate sci - ence and art—that’s perfect for us. And in Shoosty Bugs , we were able to ask questions like, How do we embrace technology and stay connected to the natural world?
Tamara Joy, Chief Curator, MoAS
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