Fly
This story is inspired by real events that happened at our office during winter. Dedicated to our dear friend, Fly.
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In Summer 2018 we launched and managed an artist collaboration called Maneki-neco. Misha Petrick, the founder of the studio, came up with a neon cat design.
Being huge fans of feasible artifacts, we decided to order a real neon sign with that design.
Every day the sign has delighted our eye, greeted and farewelled our guests, colored the room into nice pink-blue colors.
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But one day something happened.
We noticed some kind of burnt odor which led us directly to the sign. A part of the neon cat was not working anymore, while the sign itself emitted an unpleasant odor.
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When we looked closely we saw that something had gotten stuck between neon tubes and therefore caused the power failure. That something was a fly - little and barely visible dweller of our office. Floating freely in a spacious studio, it initiated a too-close encounter with the neon cat.
We decided to honor the memory of the flying creature by making a short cartoon about its daily life in the office and the tragedy, that happened from the pure love for our beatiful sign.
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