Apr 8, 2025
Leaf Litter Lads!!
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Leaf Litter Lads!!
Flowers and Leaves
fall forest spirits.
Leaf Litter
🍂🐌🪳🌱🍄🟫 // springtails, from Whose Tree Is This // gouache on hot press paper
More works in progress. Insects and spring ephemerals.
From the canopy high above we fall into the leaf litter. Lemuria has a huge diversity of countless small critters from all sorts of clades. Here, at the edge of tropical rainforest we take a glimpse at some of them.
Note that we got some taxa into this piece by making them being transported by army ants. Ants are an incredibly important part of modern day ecosystems, they probably consume more biomass than even humans and in turn many species rely on them.
For people not aware, Lemuria is a spec evo project of the #paleostream community. It follows the evolution of organisms living on the fictional continent of Lemuria (fusion of Madagascar and India) from the Cretaceous to the Pleistocene. We are in the Oligocene #LemuriaChallenge
"Solace In Detritus"
Watercolor on hot press paper, 8 x 8″. Unframed.
For my solo collection "Fruiting Bodies," on view now at Poetic Tiger Gallery thru December 19th.
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