@miss-mantis.bsky.social
Sculptor inspired by insects, mold, and other small and curious things. Everything I do is impacted by my experience of invisible disability and chronic pain. Queer, ento-goth Ms. Frizzle. https://www.jgklausner.com/
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12.10.2025 13:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Studio snapshot
26.02.2025 15:32 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you! 💜
14.02.2025 18:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sweet on You
dimensions: 1x5x3"
materials: Clay, chalk pastel pigment, acrylic paint, wire, cellophane, resin
date: 2021
One of the interesting challenges in making this piece was sculpting the popsicle stick. I spent a long time examining a real one, looking closely at its textures and markings.
Slowly moving forward...
13.02.2025 19:17 — 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Prints to benefit the ACLU!
Remind yourself or a loved one of the wonderful garden you are, and help protect our rights!
square.link/u/B2Cb99ZW
If oppressed people throughout history had decided that the horror of the moment meant that joy was decadent and irresponsible, there would be no jazz or drag or Purim
05.02.2025 17:16 — 👍 24 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 1
Prints to benefit the ACLU!
Remind yourself or a loved one of the wonderful garden you are, and help protect our rights!
square.link/u/B2Cb99ZW
Thank you! 💜
31.01.2025 18:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0💜
31.01.2025 01:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you very much!
31.01.2025 01:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I would love to be added to! I think I count as trad media?
31.01.2025 00:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Little mole feeeeeeeeet
26.01.2025 16:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Top and bottom of mole detail from "I Cannot Be a Meal, But I Can Be a Garden"
Wool, clay, wire, foam, paint, coffee grounds
Thank you so much! I really appreciate it
26.01.2025 15:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I'm sorry for the silly question, but I'm new to Bluesky and also an artist - HOW did you add more than one image to a post??
26.01.2025 15:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I'd love to be added to the contemporary artist one!
26.01.2025 15:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Oops, wrong one 😳
26.01.2025 15:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I'd love to be added!
26.01.2025 15:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Glad you're here! 💜
26.01.2025 02:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Realistic clay sculpture of a sprouted potato on a white plate. There is a ladybug on one of the sprouts.
Detail of "I Cannot Be a Meal, But I Can Be a Garden"
Clay, pigment, wire, paint
2024
A sprouted potato is ruined, unless you radically shift your perspective of what the value of a potato can be.
Thank you very much! Its a piece with a lot of details, so difficult to show well with just the 1 image, but I'll be posting more (also there are a bunch of pictures on my website)
25.01.2025 02:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Life sized sculpture of a peach with bruised flesh
I am my bruises
and my soft flesh
and my sweetness.
I am my impermanence
and imperfections.
I am the stone at my core
that exists to create.
"Damaged Goods"
Clay, pigment, fiber
2.5x3x2.5"
2024
Will do! You too! 😅
24.01.2025 03:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Is this the migraine Jen I know? If so, hi!!!
24.01.2025 02:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you so much! I'll be posting more pictures on here soon. Still getting used to the format!
24.01.2025 01:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Non-binary trans person here, with the bilateral gynandromorph amazon ant (Polyergus longicornis alate/worker) I found - and which I really, really need in tattoo form 🖤
23.01.2025 01:29 — 👍 1747 🔁 242 💬 47 📌 7Felt relevant to my feelings today. Our roots are deep, and we will not be eradicated easily. We will survive.
23.01.2025 17:11 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Putting Down Roots
52x12.5x12.5”
Clay, acrylic paint, chalk pastel pigments, wire, sealant, coffee grounds, cotton
2021
The average length of a dandelion taproot is 6-18 inches, but they can grow up to 10 feet. A dandelion can regrow from as little as an inch of taproot left in the soil.
Thank you for making this! I'd love to be added 😊
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