Description
‘Alabastrum’ by Petra Frankova
Artist: Petra Frankova
Title: ‘Alabastrum’
Medium: Graphite and colour pencil on 250gsm Stonehenge cotton paper
Dimensions: 6″ x 4.5″
Framing: Unframed
Year of Creation: 2024
Artwork Will Ship From: Czech Republic
About the Artwork:
A rare type of “inquiline” species. These plant-dwelling newts use specific chalice-like and comfortable petal receptacles as nests for their offspring. The translucent membrane seals shut once the mother newt has crawled inside. It is permeable enough to breath through, yet keeps the environment perfectly moist for the animals.
Scientist have long debated whether this symbiosis proves beneficial for the plant itself. It was recently found that the juvenile newts devour the seeds, which ripen just before they hatch. The younglings then disperse the precious seeds on their way out in pursure of their own mates.
About the Artist:
(Artist Bio)
Petra is a traditional printmaker and illustrator from Czech Republic.
Her universe is one of almost tyrannical, symbolist harmony. The meticulous attention to detail combined with the unnamed feeling behind words, senses and meaning. Quiet, unmoving, perpetual gazing upon something charmingly familiar, yet strangely and deeply foreign. Alien, ambiguous, disconnected from our expectations and challenging ordinary perception – creatures humming silently, in their shattered words of dread and eeriness.