After picking up our art we joined the First Friday gallery walk. There's a really neat fair trade import store where we found another object that we had to have. This flying frog is from Bali. I could look up the origin myself, but I'll ask for help. If anyone can tell me what it means (the mythology), or make up a believable answer, that would be much appreciated.
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So hard to tell if you're serious or not. I like both pieces very much. The print is dope.
I know it protects and gives good luck. I have read that the flying frog is guardian of children. The first known spotting of a "flying frog", which is actually a web toed tree frog, was in Borneo which is really close to Bali.
Hi Megan Key! So good to hear from you. Thanks for the info on the flying frog. Email me so I can write you you directly.
I looked this up, so you better believe it:
the frog, which is nearly "golf" spelled backwards, symbolizes selfish rich men with too much time on their hands and insinuates that they will be raining from the sky like archangels of death to claim the beautiful Peruvian countryside for their games.
"Golf", furthermore, is "flog" spelled backwards, so it carries an encoded warning against nuns.
The lack of arms is an inversion of the European affinity for frogs' legs, implying that if the Europeans bite off Peru's limbs, they will simply regenerate as wings, which of course, are far more delicious.
Lastly, the image of self-generated flight (via said wings) is an underhanded jab at Alfonso Segura, a noted maker of catapults with a dubious past.
I know so much about everything.
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