Broken Objects

[scarlettina]

Cats break things. It's axiomatic: where there are cats and breakable objects, objects will be broken. Every cat of mine has taken one or two items as the price for its company. Though I don't remember what Flatbush (who came to me as an adult, well broken of bad habits) or Merlin (the first kitten I ever raised) may have broken, Spanky, Sophie,

Comments

[seankreynolds]

I'm sure your terra cotta warrior thought it was an honorable death!

Not to make light of this, but your post reminded me of this artist: http://www.geekologie.com/2012/02/eye-candy-porcelain-fighting-figures-dro.php

[scarlettina]

I'm sure your terra cotta warrior thought it was an honorable death!

You're going to laugh at me a little bit, but I honestly find this thought comforting. It's not an overstatement to suggest that I over-anthropomorphize my inanimate objects. I really hope he did find it an honorable death.

Love the link--thanks for that. Wonderful photography and just a very cool project. It doesn't make light of this at all.

[seankreynolds]

I'm not laughing. I'm a guy who kept my childhood stuffed animals in my closet for years after I outgrew them because I thought they'd feel bad if I gave them away. :p Didn't give them away until I went off to college.

/cue Toy Story soundtrack

[joyful_storm]

I'm sorry to hear of the recent decor/keepsake casualties from Sophie and Zeke. :/

It took me *years* to look closely at the antique family heirloom wedding gift silver candlestick that Thalia knocked from a bookcase soon after her arrival. At the time, I'd unzipped the tarnish-fighting storage bag, seen damage, and just zipped it shut and put it someplace safer. Could not deal.

I'd have suffered less if I'd been braver - it turns out her misadventure only bent a loose disc that acts as a wax guard, and it bent back into shape with little fuss.

OTOH, back when some-kitten-possibly-Emrys knocked a Sekhmet sculpture off my mantel and it broke, I just figured She didn't like it and sent a proxy to make Her point. :p

[seankreynolds]

(1) yep, (2) yep. It's why I can't have flowers or a Christmas tree in the house. Thanks, Malachi, you goofus! (he's my avatar picture)

[ghilledhu]

Schrodinger broke a vase that had been given to us as a wedding present. Ouch.

So sorry to hear about your valiant warrior's fall.

[singingnettle]

I have a little enameled Chinese or Japanse man from WWII (Dad brought it back from Japan when he was a kid in the navy) that has huge sentimental value to me. (We've never quite figured out whether he's a Chinese man wearing a kimono, or a Chinese artisan's version of a Japanese man.) I would be so brokenhearted in he got broken, even though I have no idea of his monetary value.

I don't like keeping things behind glass or up on high shelves...but I have a cat who goes around whacking objects to the floor for fun, so if it's breakable, it needs to be out of kitty reach.

It's hard, though. Like you, I prefer that the things I enjoy looking at be out and around. We collect a lot of non-breakable art these days and things you put up on walls rather than things you put on tables.