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#cicada

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Linda Ballinger

While the #cicada numbers have been increasing alarmingly for several days now, apparently they only reached a quorum today. In a way, this is less creepy than their previous silence. You don’t need to turn up the volume much to match their loudness here.

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Hayakawa Shökosai I (Japan, 1815-1897)
Tea Scoop (Chagõ) in the Shape of a #Cicada, 1891
Bamboo, H 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm) x W 2 in. (5.1 cm) x L 4 3/4 in. (12.1 cm)
On display at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2022.12)
“Whereas most tea scoops have a simple, half-cylinder shape, Shokosai playfully converted this one into a small ‘sculpture’ representing a cicada, associated with immortality and rebirth.”
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photo of the cicada tea scoop and its gallery label on display at museum “初代早川尚古 作 蝉形茶合 Hayakawa Shökosai I (1815-1897) Tea Scoop (Chagõ) in the Shape of a Cicada Meiji period (1868-1912), 1891 Bamboo Purchase, Diane and Arthur Abbey Gift, 2022 (2022.12) This bamboo scoop was used to transfer the appropriate amount of sencha tea from a larger jar to the small ceramic teapot. The work is signed by Hayakawa Shökosai I and, as noted in the inscription, was executed when the artist was seventy-six. Whereas most tea scoops have a simple, half-cylinder shape, Shokosai playfully converted this one into a small "sculpture" representing a cicada, associated with immortality and rebirth.”
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thefathippy

I'm a bit puzzled by today's cicada, it looks rather like the masked devil I posted the other day, but in green instead of orange. It's not the same as what I recognise as a green grocer, which are all green. A cross?

Lens says Cyclochila australasiae, or green grocer, yellow monday, and masked devil. I think most likely a green masked devil.

#BlueMountains
#cicada
#bushlife

A cicada clings to the brown bricks of my home. Its head and thorax are mostly shades of green with an orange wash. It appears to wearing a black mask over red-brown eyes. The sides of its head are orange. A black speed stripe runs from the centre of the mask almost to the thorax, which has its own speed striping forming patterns - I can almost see two hands grasping. Its abdomen is shiny black. Rippled transparent wings show green and orange veins,which appear to be structural.
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𝔼𝕣𝕪𝕟 𝔹𝕣𝕒𝕔𝕔𝕠
The Cicada Ocarina is complete…

I began work on this on my birthday 2023, and after taking a week or so to finish it as greenware, took a whole year deciding how to glaze it. The day before my birthday 2024, I finally executed.

To me, cicadas are a symbol of transformation and entering a new phase of life, and this project covered a time of great change for me, covering pregnancy, birth, and the beginning of motherhood.

I’m incredibly pleased with the result. Sounds hauntingly lovely despite only playing three notes. I’ll find a way to let y’all hear it soon.

This was the first ocarina I’ve ever made, but it won’t be the last…

#pottery#ceramics#clay
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Jen C Mars

I adopted a Parade-a-Cicada as part of a public art project but never shared the final results. Her name is Say-say, and she spent most of the summer outside surprising passers-by.

Say-say was a big hit at the recent festival I took her to where many small children came to say hello and give her a pat.

Photo top view of a painted plaster cicada set on a sheet of cardboard. The cicada is dark purple with stylized yellow floral designs along the head back. The wing veins are dark magenta to purple, and the wings themselves are painted in swirling dark blue, aqua and yellow to give a starry effect. The eyes are magenta, and the simple eyes are pink plastic gems glued on.
Side view of the painted plaster cicada, just showing more of the same but from a different angle.
Front facing view of the painted plaster cicada showing more paint on the face, the googly compound eyes, and the plastic gem eyes.
#insects#InverteFest#cicada
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