THE FERNAL ALIEN PLANT
About 10 days ago I posted a photo of a "strange encounter": ANOTHER WORLD - a apparition of the Planet Nibiru over a Western Canadian National Park (sometimes called Niburu, Planet X or Nemesis).
Not long thereafter, @elohprojects called for entries to !!VISIONARY ART CONTEST!! - CALL FOR ENTRIES - what a coincidence! On of the categories: DESIGN AN ALIEN PLANT!
So I worked all week since then, creating from my atavistic memory a ALIEN PLANT that I believe has been seeded on a remote island in the South Pacific some 320.000 years ago when Nibiru had a close pass to our Earth. Encased in a meteor that landed in the sea, the seeds of this plant stayed dormant for thousands of years, until through volcanic activity, a island arose, still uncharted and unexplored to this day. It lifted the meteor and its content to the surface, and several thousand years later, by erosion, the seeds were freed and began to sprout, producing a strange carnivorous plant.
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By that time, seeds of palm trees and other vegetation had been carried by the tide and the island slowly developed a lush forest cover. Eventually, sea birds populated this island - and just at that time, the alien plant began to spread rapidly across the island via rhizomes; I believe the largest part of the plant is under ground, while the exposed part is it's "feeding flower" like a flesh eating plant. Somehow it had developed a sort of siren call to attract the seabirds. Should a bird land and stick its head into the orifice of the flower, it snaps shut and drags the bid within. Digestion happens almost instantaneously. Food thus obtained is then shared via the rhizome network with all the other alien plants on the island.
Details
The Process
last photo before finishing it today
The medium is graphite pencils and graphite sticks, done on a cream-colored 2,5 mm mat board (its really great to draw on - I prefer it over paper). In the photos it may look like it would be larger, but as you can see on the desk shot - it is 20 x 30 cm (roughly 9 x 12 inches).
