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Uncatalogued Species from a Dream I Forgot

Plate I — bioluminous orchid and attendant insect

A series of AI-generated illustrations that feel like pages torn from a naturalist’s field journal in a dream. Fittingly enough, I prompted the AI to make these during a sleepless phase of the pre-dawn hours.

I’m tempted to translate some of these into real watercolours or pencil drawings — there’s something here I want to chase.

Plate II — nocturnal teal-flower sentinel
Plate III — redfire bloom with hover-moth
Plate IV — bluewing surveyors in early dusk
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3 responses to “Uncatalogued Species from a Dream I Forgot”

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    maxfrancesartist

    Very Voynich.

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      Smiler

      Fascinating. I did not know about the Voynich manuscript till now. Thanks for bringing it up! Will definitely look into it.

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        maxfrancesartist

        Cool. These look good, it would be interesting to see what you did with them. (The things they made me think of other than the Voynich manuscript were: the flower garden in Alice through the looking glass, and that I found out relatively recently that Beatrix Potter was really a botanical illustrator (and that I once saw botanical drawings displayed in jars).

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