But many stepped back when told it was about training on farming maggots for animal feed and garden manure. “People were like, ‘What? These are flies, flies bring cholera’,” Choumumba said.

This sculpture is the talk of a town on the south coast of England. News of the new art installation has reached far and wide because of the resemblance, much to the surprise of the artist.

flies were largely seen as something to exterminate, not breed. After harvesting the insects about once a month, Choumumba turns them into protein-rich feed for her free-range chickens that she eats ...