Post B2OAaKrEpF6f3s5qL2 by octothorpe@mastodon.online
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(DIR) Post #B1FmS9ykRdkDWCuQ5Y by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-14T22:48:40Z
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Ant Ceramic Art on Etsy:There are some really excellent pieces of art. Maaan if I were a rich person with a house with a place to put a $600 vase I know exactly which vase I would have. :https://www.etsy.com/listing/8838238/ant-picnic-6x6-ceramic-art-tilehttps://www.etsy.com/listing/1661330421/stunning-casas-grandes-mata-ortiz-ollahttps://www.etsy.com/listing/4393721145/ceramic-sgraffito-bowl-with-ants?I just wanted someone else to look at the nice ant art. Maybe it will inspire YOU to make ant art.Is a house really a home without some ants?
(DIR) Post #B1Fn1zPTDXnbAFUcam by babelcarp@social.tchncs.de
2025-12-14T22:55:06Z
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@futurebird ...let alone a picnic!
(DIR) Post #B1Fnf5OusPed2TsPGS by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-14T23:02:13Z
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This vase is perfect. A better vase cannot be made.
(DIR) Post #B1FnuWvyn5jam9hpAG by JoBlakely@mastodon.social
2025-12-14T23:04:55Z
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@futurebird I have only ever wanted one tattoo and that is of a trail of ants along my hip, so I could always say I had “ants in my pants” and it would make me laugh.
(DIR) Post #B1FoP5Drs5QPo6dr04 by bituur_esztreym@pouet.chapril.org
2025-12-14T23:10:29Z
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@futurebird and who made it! Mata Ortiz has an extraordinary story. i visited a show of Mata Ortiz pottery once when i lived in Mexico, it's simply gorgeous, each peace is a marvel, and their style, i love it!
(DIR) Post #B1FoUM9wKRa3mcJpmC by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-14T23:11:26Z
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@bituur_esztreym It was made by Guadalupe Gallegos.... I thought Mata Ortiz was a name at first, but it's the type of pottery. Very amazing art.
(DIR) Post #B1FpOSNKPArBHJKdVo by bituur_esztreym@pouet.chapril.org
2025-12-14T23:21:36Z
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@futurebird yes my post is ambiguous too. Mata Ortiz is 1. a city in Chihuahua State, and 2. the style of pottery they're making, reviving the ancient techniques and colors and design of the pottery of an archeological site nearby. the precursor and initiatior (40-50 years ago or so) is Juan Quezada Celado, and now with many artists it's striving again!
(DIR) Post #B1FpkMvJM6wKjxfx1E by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-14T23:25:34Z
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@LevZadov I've been following @potterybyosa for a long time and love her work. This may or MAY NOT be a part of a subtle psychological influence campaign to get her to make ant stuff.
(DIR) Post #B1FsPSIaTU15C2HYm0 by bituur_esztreym@pouet.chapril.org
2025-12-14T23:30:59Z
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@futurebird was lucky enough to find in the show i told you of in fist post, a small.. but wonderful, and affordable piece (sort a vase, thinner in shape, geometrical motives, a very peculiar irregular opening form) i brought back to France as marriage present to my son-in-law and his wife!
(DIR) Post #B1FsPThnFFlzYV5ChU by bituur_esztreym@pouet.chapril.org
2025-12-14T23:54:07Z
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@futurebird in the 1st 100 or so images of a search, the nearest i find to the vase i bought and offered would be this one, except "mine" was without carvingin the design.i bought for myself the nº of Artes de Mexico dedicated to Mata Ortiz. sold out but the cover and two doubles pages visible here: https://artesdemexico.com/shop/products/45-cer%C3%A1mica-de-mata-ortiz-agotado
(DIR) Post #B1FsPV4WAFXpnGirlA by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-14T23:54:43Z
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@bituur_esztreym I love that people are still making more vases like these.
(DIR) Post #B1FzaQDVFsFxbI531U by sashin@veganism.social
2025-12-15T01:15:48Z
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@futurebird the queen on the top makes me weirdly happy
(DIR) Post #B1G08eJvKCFPBhP8dc by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-15T01:22:01Z
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@sashin I think it's on the bottom... like a surprise. :)But I think having her there kind of explains why they are... like that.
(DIR) Post #B2O3GSZXjYelW7OMwi by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-17T20:26:49Z
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I found another remarkable ant vase. This one has a charming surprise inside. It's a harvester ant!Is it silly to have an ant making bread? I assure it is not. Harvester ants crush the seeds they find and make them into a paste known as "ant bread" I suppose they don't bake it though...Vase by Patricia Jones Jemez of Pueblo NM. She made many ant themed vases. https://www.etsy.com/listing/4302231513/jemez-pueblo-pottery-storytelling-ant
(DIR) Post #B2O3II3Dp4XVSt9AOW by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-17T20:27:11Z
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I could write a whole book on "ants in pottery" ...
(DIR) Post #B2O3Td9ZhkKc6AWfOi by grumpasaurus@infosec.exchange
2026-01-17T20:29:11Z
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@futurebird this makes me think of the cartoon High Notehttps://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/HighNote
(DIR) Post #B2O3lLlT5v3TNehQu0 by megsouth@c.im
2026-01-17T20:32:22Z
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@futurebird immediately thought that was a Pueblo piece! It’s gorgeous!
(DIR) Post #B2O5wnsx5AzBgmmzVA by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-17T20:56:48Z
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@goaty Ants haven't figured out pottery that we know of yet. But they do sculpt clay:Indian Harvester ants, Pheidole sykesi create levies around their nest entrance so that when it rains the flood waters do not enter the entrance, but rather flow around it while they stay dry underground. They build in response to the water so you can tell which direction the water comes form during the rains based on the height of the walls.
(DIR) Post #B2O6GcUJASWW8FiADY by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-17T21:00:29Z
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@goaty I've been in potter classes and watched people struggle to hand build a cup this nice and smooth and symmetrical. And they weren't even working on a cup the size of a small house.
(DIR) Post #B2O6YB9NXxqYYhIKHo by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-17T21:03:37Z
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@goaty I think these nests show how they are related to other wasps. We just get to see the things that winged wasps make more often.
(DIR) Post #B2OAaKrEpF6f3s5qL2 by octothorpe@mastodon.online
2026-01-17T21:48:49Z
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@futurebird @goaty The internet has messed me up enough that the first thing that entered my broken brain was ‘it’s missing the ring’.
(DIR) Post #B2ODecWFP0TsrH0faq by aSweetGentleman@mstdn.social
2026-01-17T22:23:12Z
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@futurebird @goaty Ants will never cease to amaze me!😲
(DIR) Post #B2OGUKtIO9wR9TZtz6 by c_reider@sonomu.club
2026-01-17T22:54:55Z
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@futurebird that is cool as hell
(DIR) Post #B2OMUi0f26iyZvaHFA by JosephMeyer@c.im
2026-01-18T00:02:17Z
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@futurebird Perhaps you should make Douglas Hofstadter aware of these bowls. I stumbled across a short video interview of him on YouTube, recently, and he said he is now more interested in art than science.
(DIR) Post #B2Od3TYmLa4zAK8u0W by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-18T03:07:51Z
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@goaty I once read the most interesting story online about a small town with a dark secret. Everyone in it looked like a human but was really some kind of bee or wasp. Then a family of yellow jacket people moved in and everyone was suspicious of them. But the "mud-dauber woman" had a pottery studio in the tiny downtown which I just thought was a charming little detail.
(DIR) Post #B2Ogrgc0OTSlzHHllw by yonder@spacey.space
2026-01-18T03:50:31Z
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@futurebird @goaty Oh this has suddenly reminded me of a movie, I think from the 90s, in which some intelligent bugs from the rainforest who are really good mimics, disguise themselves as human, to go live in a human town. I think the idea is that they want to do research on the creatures who are destroying their habitat. It was wuite an oddball film that stuck in my memory but I can't remember anything else about it. Let me think
(DIR) Post #B2OhCFYu9zZ8AsdnSC by antdude@mastodon.social
2026-01-18T03:54:13Z
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@futurebird @goaty how tall do these levies go?
(DIR) Post #B2OhJ41XSPDOPtHcfo by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-18T03:55:30Z
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@antdude @goaty Maybe 13cm?
(DIR) Post #B2OkFlH70YyfGIgV1s by Iveyline@mastodon.nz
2026-01-18T04:28:29Z
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@futurebird @goaty Clever.
(DIR) Post #B2OkcWxQPGDPW8KiNU by clew@ecoevo.social
2026-01-18T04:32:35Z
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How do they make it dense enough to not wash away at the base? Surely ants aren’t heavy enough for effective particle compaction ? !! Do they drywall-fit the grains together? @futurebird @goaty
(DIR) Post #B2OmyKdp4twfbAghtI by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-18T04:59:00Z
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@clew @goaty I think they pick sticky mud and mix and pack it so that it's somewhat water resistant. But that also may be why they have multiple walls, the outer ones may fail, but they won't all fail hopefully. Forget the "secret of Roman cement what are the ants doing?"
(DIR) Post #B2PEFtWzJFYXUb5dJY by Shivviness@beige.party
2026-01-18T10:04:35Z
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@futurebird @goaty I adore learning new things about nature.I know some people are of the opinion that we can't fully explain life purely through DNA, and when you consider that these basic creatures are capable of this astonishing engineering in response to seasonal flooding, one can somewhat sympathise with their thinking.
(DIR) Post #B2PlM9ZbsHR1TIuNk0 by antdude@mastodon.social
2026-01-18T16:15:34Z
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@futurebird @goaty They need to go higher from those heavy rains and big floods!
(DIR) Post #B2PljFrAgCLrcS8cvQ by capnthommo@c.im
2026-01-18T16:19:43Z
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@futurebird @goaty they really are very clever aren't they.
(DIR) Post #B2Qxkrh0bh2DbEQg2i by twipped@twipped.social
2026-01-19T06:09:04Z
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@futurebird I gotta say, if I was walking through the woods and found this, I would be very freaked out