carpe natem

But in 200 years’ time it is more than probable that that dog will be dug up from somewhere or other, minus its legs, and with its tail broken, and will be sold for old china, and put in a glass cabinet. And people will pass it round, and admire it. They will be struck by the wonderful depth of the colour on the nose, and speculate as to how beautiful the bit of the tail that is lost no doubt was.

We, in this age, do not see the beauty of that dog. We are too familiar with it. It is like the sunset and the stars: we are not awed by their loveliness because they are common to our eyes. So it is with that china dog. In 2288 people will gush over it. The making of such dogs will have become a lost art. Our descendants will wonder how we did it, and say how clever we were. We shall be referred to lovingly as “those grand old artists that flourished in the nineteenth century, and produced those china dogs.”

Free Ornamentation VII. This work is dedicated to the public domain 🌼. In thanks to the public for helping me settle my cat’s final vet bills.

And that's not even getting into the "weird food" trend. If you're going into Asian markets or grocery stores to be weirded out by standard foods and ingredients like chicken feet, then you're just being really fucking racist.

Some little ceramic birds are available right now in my shop! 🥚 miholics-shop.ca 🥚