Gunther Gerzso (Mexican, 1915-2000) - Aparición, oil on canvas, 80.0 × 49.9 cm (1960)
The Lybia crab is a species of small crab in the family Xanthidae. It is also referred to as Hawaiian boxer crab, pom-pom crab, cheerleader crab, mosaic boxer crab among many other nicknames. The crabs are known for their signature move of always carrying a small living sea anemone around in each of its claws.
By waving sea anemone into different routines its dances its way to a free meal, gathering debris and food particles from the ground around the crab’s hiding place.
If provoked or attacked by a predator, the pom-pom crab (boxing crab) will threaten the aggressor and try to deter it by waving it’s anemones around, the tentacles of which are well armed with cnidocytes (stinging cells). Video
Lawrence Carroll
Tacita Dean: Sound Mirror, 2001
Alfred Eisenstaedt
Fabric Shop in Guayaquil
Ecuador
1958
by Marta Bevacqua
Etruscan Bronze Left Hand, c.650 BCE, Italy
Louise Bourgeois “Couple” fabric
Constantly shooting myself in the foot. Breaking someone who I love to only realise how much I love them, to then be understandably rejected and replaced by them for better people. Feelings of intense self hatred and finding myself placed between a person I love and my own well being.