I love you, because you're true blue.

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"Last time we went swimming

the sea stood up and hugged you

as though you were responsible

for keeping it blue"

Bianca Stewart

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Twin Fawns.

I came upon twin fawns in the display case of a mom and pop toy and science store in Kansas City, Missouri. It took me two years to win the trust of the shop owner and save the money to buy them. A taxidermist spotted a dead deer by the side of the road. He stopped to properly dispose of the body and realized she was pregnant. He opened her and found near full-term twin fawns, he removed and preserved them.

Deer rarely have twins and the taxidermist retained the uterine gesture of their bodies. I built them a vitrine with a light blue base. Their prematurity exaggerates the delicacy of an incredibly sweet thing. The points of their hooves, the length of their lashes, the spots of their hides, nose to small nose in an ur-cartoonish realism … Viewers’ eyes trick them into believing the fawns are breathing. The tragedy of beauty is its transience.

The twins live forever in their own demise. They are sleeping beauties.They have been muses since I first saw them … We dress death in lilies and bronze the names of our dead sons on walls. We erect altars of toys and hold candlelight vigils to express hope. My twin fawns sleep endlessly on their baby blue block in my studio. The twins never opened their eyes yet their wondrous fatality evokes an acceptable alternative to death.
— Peregrine Honig.

When the curious girl realises she is trapped under glass.

Please Touch the Glass by Svenja Pitz, SUPERIOR magazine March 2012

Found via Jack Germain.

Museums are one of my favourite pastimes, and I have a particular fondness of Natural History and Zoological specimens. I begin my placement next month at the Cambridge museum of zoology and although it won't be anything as glamorous as this, I am still terribly excited.

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June on the West Coast.

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Sunday was the most delightful weather I've seen for a while and ever since I've been filled with the joys of Spring. During this time of the year I long to watch Bambi, drink elderflower cordial and wear flowers in my hair.

Bon Iver-Babys

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