From the Vaults of Curious Expeditions

Last time the bunny introduced me a strange and interesting site about, well, strange things. This site is called Curious Expeditions: Traveling and exhuming extraordinary past. And it has many exciting stories and mysteries about the past. Since I am fascinated with historic past and it's intriguing tales as well as enigmas, I became interested with this site (and I helps too if a certain site has links to other blogs, so that I can look for other things that may suit my curiosity).

But one article from their archives that I became most intrigued about talks of the small statues of dwarf in Salzburg, Austria. It is actually a garden filled with dwarf statues, called Zwerglgarten, or “Dwarf Garden” created in 1715 by prince Archbishop Franz Anton Harrach. You can click the here for the link to this curious site. These over-sized garden gnomes might not be categorized as fantastically grotesque, but are more of nameless memorials of the court dwarves who are simply differently formed in nature, and are represented as thus.

Sadly, they never mentioned the artist of the dwarves, or probably they don't know who actually made it, and the commissioner never puts his or her name in records. Sometimes, I am dissappointed with the artists who were so skilled yet they are forgotten by time, or were never recognized, and now we hardly know their names even if their works still exist amongst us. But perhaps it's their destiny to not to be recognized by future generations, or even by their contemporaries, to preserve their strangeness and the mystery of their work. Or because they just haven't really given thought to fame and immortality, and they simply did what they wanted to do.

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During the past seven days, we had a meteor shower in our country. Though quite sadly I missed them due to my usual sleeping schedule, since I usually sleep early and wake up minutes after the sun had risen.