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Waterbug (34" x 30", casein on
masonite) - Based on Mary's collection of
water creatures that she kept in an aquarium
one summer in the early 1960s at Yelping
Hill, this waterbug personifies the beauty
and fierceness that Mary saw in these
insects.
"It was a venomous creature. What
happened was we caught a lot of things from
the Tarn at Yelping Hill, and put them in a
tank and then just sort of let them go to
see who would eat who. It was a very
gruesome thing, but it was nature, and
finally it ended up with a crayfish and
this creature, and then this creature
managed to get the crayfish. He had a
long poker thing poking like a sword, and
he would suck out the juices of whoever he
managed to get. After he stabbed to
death the gallant crayfish, he turned over
and lay on his back and died."
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