Online Pura Cal Grasshopper | Laboratório D’Estórias

The Grasshopper is a representation of its own observation, in eartheware and glazed according to the traditional manual diving technique. This piece, purely decorative, is ennobled by legs in natural brass, manually casted in sand mold. The cardboard box is surrounded by a paper strap that contains the illustration and the synopsis of the short story “The stilness of the Grasshopper”.

“That summer, my brother read in a magazine that grasshoppers are capable of jumpimg a distance equal to twenty times their body-lenght, which breathed new life into our old idea of ​​becoming explorers. I did the math: if we learned to jump like that, we could travel around the world in just a few months. “