In some of these, the spiritual and physical unite to achieve both beauty and transcendence: … only after touching our heads to the diamond back of the earth, do we rise again, arched like curls of river silk, emptying our souls into the sky, forgetting the world.
In the foyer, Sze's various containers were filled with potential sculptural elements: plastic leaves, silk flowers, empty egg cartons.
On my first visit to Madagascar, I walked on an empty beach in a silk Indian wrap, carrying a Chinese sunshade.
Silk threads (and silk ribbons).
We observed, for the first time, ants using empty cocoons of the economically important silk moth species, Gonometa postica, as shelter and nesting sites.
Gleaned from the museum's permanent collection, the show includes such imported items as Delftware pottery, spices from the Orient lodged in original cabinets, 18th-century linens and silks from Europe, and bottles (empty, by now) of wine from Spain.
Therefore, G. postica acts as an autogenic ecosystem engineer and current silk harvesting practices, which partly rely on harvesting empty G. postica cocoons, may have potential local and large-scale implications for inter-specific interactions in these arboreal systems.
On the table, there are tiny, silk-lined oak coffins the size of jewellery boxes, empty and ready for use.
