Spirits Dancing » insects

Laura Zindel ceramics

Hil — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 18:41:45 +0000

Laura Zindel ceramics: “Crazy old Uncle Larry bought that peculiar spider platter, and we just can’t seem to part with it”, I would like to be a part of that.’ Lovely ceramic crockery patterned with snakes, spiders, insects. I love these bottles.

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Mimi Kirchner’s Big Men Dolls

Hil — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 13:42:07 +0000

Mimi Kirchner’s big men dolls are fun. It’s interesting how different the wool patterns and texture makes them, and I really like the spoof heroic shape! This one is my favourite. As someone remarks these guys are reminiscent of David Byrne in his Big White Suit in Stop Making Sense.

Mimi also makes the best bugs, too. (And you might know by now how I like a good insect!)

Night/Baby

Hil — Sun, 14 Aug 2005 17:06:40 +0000

This is beautiful.Thanks so much, Mimi. I also love this new one. What is it with me and insects at the moment?

Hooray for two-dollar shops!

Hil — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 09:37:44 +0000

Tacky but interesting: this is a huge spider garden spike that I got at the $2 shop the other day. It’s a hand span across, and the connections between its legs and body are fine springs, so that when the spike is jolted the legs have an incidental movement. The best movement you can get out of it is a kind of drumming of the legs, where, on each side, legs 1 and 3 are in sync with each other, and legs 2 and 4 are doing the opposite. Then it has the right kind of action for a huntsman spider.

I have a couple of other insect garden spikes, a bee and a dragonfly (bought out of curiosity when I was working on making giant bees and dragonflies a few years ago). They are much smaller than the spider, with bodies about 7 cm long, and the wings are on double springs. The dragonfly has much lighter springs, and a much better incidental movement than the poor bee, whose springs and wings are way too heavy.