Can any paleontologist tell me what cool thing I just dug up in my central Texas yard, 12” down in gravelly clay? Looks to me like some sort of arthropod. #fossil

A mid-century hammered-copper lamp meets a Levon Biss macro photograph of a stick-insect egg: “Why, hello!”

Every time I see Stephen Miller, this famous Harold Edgerton photograph comes to mind.

I'm definitely in the mood to post an #assassin bug, aka "wheel bug." Watching it molt was especially a thrill. Its coral color turned grey rather quickly. photo taken at Hornsby Bend, Austin, TX.

From an older series. Carved and cast plaster and clay. 15x4x3. #hydrostone #clay #karst #sculpture

This afternoon's 9-lb plaster slab casting: "Desert Gypsum with Botanical Chromas." 10" x 10" x 1". Openings are backed with plaster cast w pigments and glass microspheres. #hydrostone #minimalism #sculpture #art #glass #color #design

Ulexite, a boron mineral, casts images from its bottom flat surface to its top surface via long tubular crystals. It's also called "T.V. rock" due to this cool television-screen illusion. In these pieces, I back-painted sky/clouds onto the bottom surface, which "magically" appear on the top surface.