Tales Out Of School

This is so incredibly cool--found via Scribal Terror, an article from
Cabinet Magazine Online about how Hubert Duprat collaborates with nature and caddis-flies for jewelry.



I absolutely love how the little homely-looking things emerge out of these gilded shells. Long-legged mummies in opulent sarcophagi. Love it!

For some reason, it makes me think of Yeats' poem Oil And Blood;

In tombs of gold and lapis lazuli
Bodies of holy men and women exude
Miraculous oil, odour of violet.

But under heavy loads of trampled clay
Lie bodies of the vampires full of blood;
Their shrouds are bloody and their lips are wet.