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Kurukuru Kurumi-chan (1938) by Katsuji Matsumoto

Behold—the space station of the future! (…from 1973)

This artist’s concept gives a cutaway view of the Skylab orbital workshop, which launched 50 years ago on May 14, 1973. Established in 1970, the Skylab Program's goals were to enrich our scientific knowledge of Earth, the sun, the stars, and cosmic space; to study the effects of weightlessness on living organisms; to study the effects of the processing and manufacturing of materials in the absence of gravity; and to conduct Earth-resource observations.

Three crews visited Skylab and carried out 270 scientific and technical investigations in the fields of physics, astronomy, and biological sciences. They also proved that humans could live and work in outer space for extended periods of time, laying the groundwork for the International Space Station.

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Sturgeon (2021) and Coelacanth (2021) by Wally Dion (Saulteaux) circuit boards, crystals, plywood, nails

Several years ago, Blackfoot elder; Leroy Little Bear, was making a presentation in Banff Alberta about the fact that animals used to talk to people, or that people could understand animals. Part riddle, part prophecy, Little Bear ended by stating that: ‘he supposed they (the fish) still talk, albeit at a slowed pace and tempo; were a person to wait long enough they would undoubtably detect the tiniest of murmurs, or bubbles from the fish’. This notion of fish talking to humans was reiterated by Christie Belcourt in her 2007 painting: ‘What the Sturgeon Told Me’. Belcourt describes a dream she had wherein a sturgeon visited her to convey a message about the dams and disruption of traditional waterways.

From Wally Dion's website.

Candace Couse | Landlocked, 2010

(further reading)

Commission for Danicka for her partner of their three housecats, for their wedding anniversary.

THE beetle

Drew a rhizodus, an absolute monster of an animal that lived during the carboniferous period, roughly 5-7m in length (making it the largest freshwater fish that we know of) and a tetrapodomorph meaning it breathed air and is more closely related to us than to true blue and gilled fish!

We’ve even found land track marks from another genus of rhizodontid, they certainly got around!

I’d love to make some big stickers (and prints) of this fella if anyone was interested :-)