“The patient: this 3-day-old little boy was born with torn upper and lower wings. Let’s see how we can help!”
Today the Department of Awesomely Good Deeds salutes costume designer and master embroiderer Romy McCloskey who used her fine skills with delicate materials to help a monarch butterfly she’d raised and who’d emerged from his cocoon with damaged right wings.
“The operating room and supplies: towel, wire hanger, contact cement, toothpick, cotton swab, scissors, tweezers, talc powder, extra butterfly wing”
“Securing the butterfly and cutting the damaged parts away. Don’t worry it doesn’t hurt them. It’s like cutting hair or trimming fingernails”
“Ta-da! With a little patience and a steady hand, I fit the new wings to my little guy”
“The black lines do not match completely and it is missing the black dot (male marking) on the lower right wing, but with luck, he will fly”
“FLIGHT DAY! After a day of rest and filling his belly with homemade nectar, it is time to see if he will fly”
“With a quick lap around the yard and a little rest on a bush, he was off! A successful surgery and outcome! Bye, little buddy! Good luck”
“Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.” – Charlotte Brontë. 🖤 love, no way – crying is no reflection of being a “weak person.” i feel that humans have created this entity which tells you what you can and can’t feel, and it’s so wrong! i’m a deeply sensitive person, and while it gets to be tiresome sometimes, i’ve accepted that it’s just who i am. i can’t help being this feeling, but it doesn’t mean there’s something ‘wrong’ with me. some people just experience feelings different than others; feel things deeper than others. 🙂 you’re human. embrace your emotions. don’t make yourself hold back from feeling just for the sake of others.’ explain to them that you just feel deeply, and leave it at that. ❤️ you’re not an embarrassment, and you’re not weak. in fact, i wish more people were as open with their emotions! crying is rejuvenating; a wonderful release. you deserve to feel this release, even if others may not quite understand it. everyone has different outlets! – so just know that there are others like you, and don’t ever make yourself feel alienated or strange, just for being the way you are. xx 😌
If I understand correctly, these are ceramic bowls floating in a pool of water, possibly in a cave because it’s echo-y, and the clinking sound is them bumping into one another. Like wind chimes, but … water chimes?
yo, i saw this in person over the summer! it’s an art installation!
the piece is called clinamen v.2, created by Céleste Boursier-Mougenot and included as a part of the Soundtracks exhibit in the moma – i saw it in san fran, and this photo is from a showing in new york:
the exhibit is a large shallow pool filled with white ceramic bowls in varying sizes. the bowls are pushed around the pool by a gentle current, and the sound created as they hit each other is somewhere between a wind chime and a haunted bell.
i sat there for a solid ten minutes just watching the bowls move around while listening to the sounds they made. it was absolutely hypnotic…
Soundtracks runs in the san fran moma until january 1st 2018, and i absolutely recommend going if you can. many of the exhibits play with sound in 3D spaces, and there are some truly wild contraptions on display.
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