Thursday, July 22, 2010

chrysalis

 
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14 comments:

Valerianna said...

totally cool... I can't tell if its something YOU made or is it a natural chrysalis? If it is, we don't have any quite like THAT up here! I'll have to click on it to enlarge it to get a better look, however, you just gave me an idea for an upcoming artists' retreat here at RavenWood....
THANKS!

funny word verification word... I want to share:
piaphons... hmmmm

jude said...

well. i have never seen anything like this. anything but plain i would say. what will emerge? it seems to represent some amazing beautiful pause.

deanna7trees said...

Isn't nature amazing...never seen such a chrysalis. can you give us an idea of measurements and what are those pretzel like things on it? thanks for sharing.

grace Forrest~Maestas said...

deanna...you made me laugh ~
pretzel like things ~ am still
laughing. but you are right, that's
what they look like.

more later...gotta start my lizard
pattern first

Kathy said...

I thought it was a bat at first glance! What will it become? For that matter, what will any of us become? I often feel like I am wriggling about inside a chrysalis, trying to flex these wings.
have fun with your lizard. sometimes they need lots of pieces to help them move and be lizardly. sometimes folding the cloth with little tucks can help them move.

Deb G said...

Oh that is wonderful!

Jacky said...

Another wonder of nature... is there a chrysalis forming for another pieced lizard?
Your butterflies are lovely and I can envisage a beautiful cloth.

Jacky xox

Elizabeth said...

Hi Grace, this looks like an Australian native moth, since childhood I've known it as a casement moth caterpillar. The little bloke lives in side and will pop his/her head out, drag his/her home along and graze, originally on eucalypts but I've found them happy in rose bushes.
They feature in siome very famous Aussie children's stories that i was brought up on. I'll try and post some pics on my blog.

mycuriousteaparty said...

I have never seen anything like it...It's huge! We don't have chrystalis as big as that over here... Looking carefully at the 'pointy' end hanging down, I see a birds face.. It is beautiful.. Thank you

ArtSparker said...

This image fills me with ideas...some sort of (virtual para)sympathetic vibe? Because there is a lot going on inside there...

Tammie Lee said...

such an amazing find!

grace Forrest~Maestas said...

tammi...i just looked at your photographs at Spirit Helper and
i am honored that my little pic
caught your attention. it IS tho
such an ARTPIECE...i so much would
love to watch the creature building it...maybe someday...
thank you for coming by!!!

grace Forrest~Maestas said...

susan...yes. i can't look at it
enough. what must that be
like
to build such a
container
for your own transformation????
thank you for coming by...

grace Forrest~Maestas said...

jacky...i am just stitching my
amazement at just everything...
i thing the creature of the chrysalis was very focused...
thank you for visiting....