you are beautiful and strange

i’ve been taking pottery classes. and i made this porcelain vase last week. just kidding. i could spend my whole life at a potter’s wheel and never make anything as beautiful as this sea urchin made just by growing to adulthood, without a central brain, reacting to stimuli with tube feet that act like eyes. i will also never be as weird as a sea urchin.

green sea urchin exoskeleton