✦ Cups & Flasks ✦

Emotions ✫ Connection ✫ Community ✫ Empathy ✫ Inner World

Throughout this wide world, water acts as a bridge, connecting people-and creatures-to the life and knowledge of others in their world.

The water-based insects in these cards are their own bridges. Heart to mind. Emotion to logic. The duality of these aquatic insects represents their ability to traverse both worlds.

Various alcohol-filled vials, flasks, bottles, and jars are used to store particularly delicate insects. Many insects stored in this way are aquatic insects whose feathery gills and other notable features would become damaged if stored by traditional pinning.