AcquiredAJISAI
Hydrangea, colours that shift with the rain. One-of-a-kind specimen art, hand-painted on a Hercules beetle, with a Certificate of Authenticity (COA).
- Series
- Four Seasons
- Title
- AJISAI
- Serial
- HL-FSN-S7V2M7
- Medium
- Hercules beetle specimen × hand-painted art
- Provenance
- Its origin (captive-bred, wild-origin or unknown) and how it came to be used are written on the Certificate of Authenticity
- Title
- AJISAI
- Series
- Four Seasons
- Attribution
- Created by HERCULES LABO ATELIER
- Issued by
- HERCULES LABO Co., Ltd.
- Verification
- About the COA & authenticity
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Certificate, engraved serial, wax seal, dedicated case — everything that upholds a one-of-a-kind work, delivered alongside it.
Each piece is painted on a Hercules beetle whose life had already ended. We never kill for art. The source beetle’s origin (captive-bred, wild-origin or unknown) and how it came to be used (it died in our care; it died in transit and was returned to us; it had already died when it reached us; or we acquired it as a specimen) are written on the Certificate of Authenticity. Every piece is painted by hand at the HERCULES LABO atelier.
AJISAI paints the early summer of the Four Seasons. The hydrangea changes its colour with the nature of the soil — through the rains of the season it turns from blue to violet to red. That shifting beauty is set upon the back of one of the longest-growing beetles on earth. Its hard, lacquer-like elytra become a rain-washed canvas, each small floret layered in gradations of blue and violet.
To be unfixed is not counted a flaw here; it is precisely in changing that the flower is beautiful. A hydrangea that never returns to the same hue is held in this single beetle. To keep what shifts in a form that will not: that is the wish carried in this piece.
We never kill for art. We use beetles whose lives have already ended. Honoured, they are given a second life as art — carrying the culture of Hercules to the next generation.
HERCULES LABO ATELIERCreated at the Atelier
Collectors' words
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We never kill for art.