Back to the ants

Going back to the ants.. I made a couple of ants out of wire and other materials as a prototype to my plan of building a giant ant out of metal ,I plan on going to the scrap heap back home for the piecses.

While waiting for that to happen I found that focusing on one lone ant was rather boring and didn't open up many new roads for me to wander down and explore. SO I began looking at large numbers of ants together and the interesting patterns they make.

A picture I drew of the negative image of ants that were constructing a bridge from one leaf to another sparked some excitement on making an abstract 3D piece based on the shapes formed by the ants' bodies when combined as one .