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Trilobites
Trilobites
encaustic on wood
21" x 21"
2022

Little arthropod denizens of planet earth for 269 million years - Cambrian to Permian. Twenty-two thousand species, some of which have yielded fossils for the artist.

During the Silurian period, plants and animals began to move up onto the land for the first time. My jigsaw-cut panel suggests tidal movement and tidal pools.