Stick 'em up

This blog is about more than sharing cool things that cross my path, but this is so cool I need to share it. It is not, as I first thought, an exhibit of pottery. Or are these netsuke, or spice jars, or perfume vessels, or beads, or even miniature sculptures. Human hands didn't make them at all! They're the eggs of stick insects (phasmids), already masters of looking like something they aren't, magnified well beyond their under 1mm size. You can see them even closer up on photographer' Levon Biss' website. I'm dazed with wonder.