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Botanical Folio: Plants & Insects

 
Climbing plants have always been popular with housing estates to
take away the harsh uniformities of the walls that separate them
from the road and each other. 
 
These plants possess little or no ability to bear weight, but let alone
are seen climbing, twining and creeping around structures of 
support.
 
This book revolves around an ecosystem created
on these structures of support- fences.
 
  In the larger scheme it may seem ordinary and insignificant to an
onlooker, but, on a deeper study the myriad varieties of plants and
insects makes it an ecosystem of its own.
 
They’re a  microcosm to depict the 
macrocosm around us.
 
 
 
 
These illustrations have been hand painted using watercolours and later compiled to form a book.
 
 
CHERRY TOMATO
        Solanum lycopersicum var.cerasiforme
 
 
CUTWORM-MOTH
Agrotis Ipsilon 
 
 
 
 
 
JASMINE
Trachelospermum jasminoides
FIRE ANT
Solenopsis mandibularis
 
 
 
 
 
BLUE TRUMPET VINE
Thunbergia laurifolia
 
CARPENTER BEE
Xylocopa violacea
 
 
 
BLACK OIL PLANT
Celastrus paniculatus wild
METALLIC WOOD BORING BEETLE
Sternocera basalis
Botanical Folio: Plants & Insects
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Botanical Folio: Plants & Insects

The project involved creating a book of a series of hand painted scientific botanical illustrations. The book 'Ecosystem on a Fence' revolves aro Read More

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