He gave us eyes to see them.

buggirl:

archiemcphee:

Archie McPhee has a long, colourful history of celebrating the humble and almost universally despised cockroach. So we were delighted when we stumbled across the top photo of a tiny shrine created beside the body of a departed roach.

It is just one of the Carmichael Collective’s awesome series of Bug Memorials, set up on the streets of Minneapolis to mark the passing of various insects where their tiny bodies were found, on the city’s sidewalks and windowsills.

One of the things we love most about street art is how it urges the viewer to stop and pay closer attention to one’s surroundings. These little memorials do just that while adding a cute and bittersweet significance to sights so common and unremarkable that they would mostly likely go completely unnoticed otherwise.

[via Neatorama]

I think this is adorable. Look at the time spent on the memorial! So I suppose I’d be nit-picking if I pointed out that it looks a Madagascar Roach in the photo, which I doubt would be on the streets of Minneapolis. That’s ok, close enough! What an amusing creative idea.