to curl into a perfect thin-skinned ball and hide from the inside/outside worlds

to have thick skin to resist intrusion and hurt

to have your own personal suit of armour

to find your casing is as breakable as porcelain but that it can weight you to the floor with your belly exposed

Beeswax, papers, watercolours, oil paints, linen, entomological pins, pintacks, feathers.

2018