by richard studer
Wood Engraving, Lemonwood, 145gsm Liber Charter Paper
h: 29 w: 29 d: 1 (cms).
This project is a celebration of the weird & the wonderful in the world around us. What began as a technical excercise in lettering and mark making (the engraver’s equivalent of a needlework sampler) quickly developed into what you see today. The subjects were chosen not on their aesthetics but on their quirkiness of character. From Pablo Escobar’s Hippos who thanks to a drug baron’s death are thriving on one continent and considered a pest on another to the ubiquitous Ginkgo Tree - extinct in the wild for nearly two centuries but saved by the monastery monks who recognised its beauty or the immortal Jellyfish who can retreat backwards in time to its juvenile polyp stage when conditions get tough. Evolution has been said to be driven not by the survival of the fittest but the survival of the least bad option - if so then we have this to thank for the quirkiness of nature’s sense of humour...
£435 (As exhibited.)
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