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InsectsStag beetle
Part jewel, part tiny armored machine. The mandibles look impossible because evolution has no interest in modesty.
Curiosities
THE
SMALL
WORLD
Not a catalog. A cabinet. Bugs, fungi, fragments, rot, seeds, bones, and whatever else earns a second look.
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InsectsMoths at the porch light
A temporary city assembled around a single artificial moon.
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FungiBracket fungi
Shelves growing from dead wood, doing the patient work of returning a tree to the forest.
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FungiInk caps
Some mushrooms dissolve themselves into black liquid. Dramatic, useful, excellent.
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FragmentsInsect wings
Veins, membranes, damage, shimmer. A whole engineering drawing thin enough to tear between fingers.
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FragmentsShed skin
Proof that growing sometimes means leaving a perfect little version of yourself behind.
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Forest floorSeed pods
Small vessels carrying a future forest. Not bugs. Still absolutely invited.
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Forest floorShed antlers
Bone grown outside the body, carried for a season, dropped into moss, and slowly reclaimed.
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Forest floorLichen
Not one organism but a relationship. A collaboration masquerading as a crust on stone.