If I were a bird
Illustrations for original poem exploring the nexus of worlds for a penguin and a marine worm.
Watercolour and gouache on paper. Each piece: 300 x 300 mm.
If I were a bird
If I were a bird
I'd swim like a fish
And stand to a rock
Like a worm
If I were a bird
I'd swim like a fish
And stand to a rock
Like a worm
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Head of Little Penguin (Eudyptula minor)
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Wing of Little Penguin (Eudyptula minor)
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Spirorbid worms (Neodexiospira sp.) and foot of Little Penguin (Eudyptula minor) on rock
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A spirorbid polychaete (Neodexiospira sp.) (a type of very small, sessile, spiral-shelled marine worm) underwater on an alga