Recently I have been thinking more and more about the act of collecting things and how it is something I want to pursue more in my practice. After telling a few people about my tendency to keep dead wasps, moths and butterflies, I keep finding little envelopes of insect treasures turning up for me. Not just the insects I mentioned but flies and ladybirds, of different shapes and sizes. I never properly realised how beautiful the common fly actually is. What I love about these insects most is that once placed in a miniature worlds they become giants. And now I am starting to look around at other things to catch (well not catch as such, I don’t kill them they are found that way. I honestly could not kill a fly.) Let’s hope my house never becomes infested.