There\u2019s a Fly in my studio.
I call every Fly \u201cTony\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019ve been trying to re-locate spiders instead of killing them for the past year or so.
(Which is a pretty big feat for a recovering arachnophobe.)
And I\u2019ve decided to extend the same compassion to the other bugs that find their way into my home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tony flies around; they land on my bucket of water.
They land on the desk;
Sometimes they land and tickle the hairs on my arm.
Or they land onto the clay leaving no footprints, no trace of themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They sit and watch me sculpt,
rubbing their little hands together as though mimicking my movements and motions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Do they understand what I\u2019m doing?
\u2028That they\u2019re watching an artist work?
What is art to a Fly?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There\u2019s a big window in front of my work desk.
And they fly up to it every now and then.
I wonder if they dream of returning to the outside\u2014returning back to their friends, family, and the life they once knew.
Or do they have a sense of wonder and discovery being inside a foreign space that is so different from the world that is familiar to them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Common House Fly can live up to a month.
I think about how one month possibly feels like forever to a Fly.
And how a month feels like nothing to me\u2014a creature that can live, on average, to 75 years.
And how 75 years is a mere second to the universe that we know\u2014something that has existed for billions of years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I think about how, if I were to ever wander and find myself in a foreign space with a foreign being, I would want them to spare me.
I would want them to allow me to live and observe them and this new world\u2014regardless if my human mind could comprehend or understand what they\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tony kept flying towards the window and seemed like they wanted to return to their world.
They seem to have had their fill of this strange place.
I eventually managed to catch them in an old yoghurt cup, and helped them get back home.
I wonder what stories they will share with their Fly friends and family.
I wonder what stories will be passed down to the next generation of Fly.
A generation that I will see, next month.
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