I opened my mail..a little package from Lyle...she spoils me! These large heart shaped pods that are filled with seeds, think little rattles.
and this perfect tiny gecko skeleton, it made it's long journey to me unharmed...
and ready to join my other treasures in the cabinet of curiosity.
New life for an old cabinet for curiosities...
now a lively place to put collections against bright white with plaster cast embellishments...
I treasure these gifts
certain dignity in death
gathered together
More Haiku my Heart here
The coming together of the cool surfaces of plaster and paint...the hot wax, photographs, stamps...scraping, drawing...
marigolds and eggs
a cabinet of curiosity themed day of the dead artwork for an upcoming show.
and...please let me know,
Shall we gather this year for dia de bloglandia?
the chicken...
or the egg...
her story lies deep within. Chicken and egg paintings percolating just below the surface too.
nuff said other than this dance brings me great JOY!
The artful display of nature's creatures...the cabinet of curiosity...I have over the years been fascinated with this, the collecting, the display...
the photography...
the journaling...
and now this...my sweet friend lent me this amazing book by Christopher Marley, Pheromone...
Marley creates artwork from astoundingly beautiful, graphic and colorful bugs that he collects from around the world. His photographer captures his 'installations' with startling clarity.
Inspiring new 'seeing' in this new year.
We are all faced with the fact that time flies
by and we become swept away with it
When we do not make the space to find the time
for our own discoveries…our own mysteries,
we find ourselves being absent from our own
lives...
our challenge is to carve out that sacred space to find and follow the mystical path of the divine.
a new work exploring sacred spaces and sanctuaries
The White Lined Sphinx Moth has been immortalized in a new work for the Longmont Studio Tour Preview show....this is an in progress peek. The wings and body of this moth are as soft as mink, she kept slipping from my fingers as I tried to arrange her properly in her shrine.
I was visited by this creature...the Ichneumon Wasp, Friday night.
I of course had no idea it was an Ichneumon Wasp...you cannot really tell how LARGE this wasp is from the photo....it is at least 4" from her head to the tip of her ovipositor...and of course I had never heard of an ovipositor either until this morning when I called my young neighborhood insect specialist over to both take and identify the specimen....
I would not mind having her back in the Mango Studio if she passes of natural causes but really have no desire to see her on my porch again.
Hope your weekend is full of curious discoveries...
Another in the continuing saga of my cabinet of curiosity...
Do you have an aversion to snakes? I know I do...(and let me tell you Tess was none to thrilled to see the new curiosity mom brought home from her bike ride)
I have read that when it comes to creatures we tend to be more comfortable with those that we can see a human resemblance.
No human resemblance here, but fascinating just the same. The tiny perfect spine...the beautiful shape, even in death
and upon closer examination...it's tiny prey...
neither destined to survive.
