After scanning a moth and a fly, along with a comment about scarabs, I remembered another insect, a chafer beetle perfectly preserved in resin, a paperweight I think. it was given to me as a gift many years ago. Of course I had to scan this too. I started with just the object but the resin has scratches and imperfections so finally I went back to my technique of ‘hand with object’ with much better success. Beautiful beetle, isn’t it?

Besides thoughts of ancient Egyptian scarabs, which are actually dung beetles, I’m reminded that the Greater Vancouver area has a serious chafer beetle infestation destroying many lawns, including ours. I think our beetle is the brown European one rather than this gorgeous green. The grubs root under the turf, then raccoons, skunks and some birds dig up the patches in search of tasty meals. I must remember to buy and apply some nematodes on it this summer (I forgot at the recommended time last year).

So that’s the story of a beauty and a beast!

A few days ago we slipped out for a walk between showers
(such mixed cold weather this spring).

Spotted drifts of tiny English daisies in the grass, in the park,
white and yellow with tinged pink edges and darker pink undersides.

Picked a few and put them in my pocket, took them home,
to be scanned.

Ah, then this, suddenly a new piece for ‘the artist’s hand-with-objects’ series.

Read about the others here.
Seeing a possible print series in the future…

The last of the group of the hand-with-objects images originally created for qarrtsiluni’s worship issue.

The others in the series:
the artist’s hand with ammonite
the artist’s hand with kelp
the artist’s hand with stones
the artist’s hand with physalis

Related images (not for qarrtsiluni):
the artist’s hand with pen
the artist’s hand with heart

Added March 10th: While looking for something else in my archives, I found these photos of peace lily flowers in early to late stages of life.

the artist’s hand with ammonite

Another of the hand-with-objects images originally created for qarrtsiluni’s worship issue.

The others in the series:
the artist’s hand with kelp
the artist’s hand with stones
the artist’s hand with physalis
artist’s hand with pen, part of the series but not in qarrtsiluni

Added March 4th: I happened across another hand-with-object I had forgotten from two years ago. For this grouping I think I shall call it artist’s hand with heart.

the artist’s hand with kelp

Another from the small series of scans of my hand with various objects which were originally created for qarrtsiluni’s worship issue.

Here are the others I’ve posted should you have missed them, with more to come later:
the artist’s hand with stones
the artist’s hand with physalis
artist’s hand with pen, part of the series but not in qarrtsiluni

the artist’s hand with stones

Last fall I created a series of scans of my hand with various objects for qarrtsiluni’s worship issue. To my great pleasure, all five images were published but when I wrote about it here, I posted only one of the images, the artist’s hand with physalis. Now I’m thinking I should make a home here for the others, featuring them one at a time over the next while.

Related images:
artist’s hand with pen
bones, stones and fossils
an early scan of a physalis, minus the hand