Bounty (Hold onto whatever makes you happy)

Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.
— David Foster Wallace

Bounty (Hold on to whatever makes you happy.)

Created this one in 2022 based on a version I created in 2020. It’s special to me.

Historical sources utilized:

Muscles of the shoulder, arm and hand- two figures of écorché arms. Lithograph by Wieller and Martelli after C. Squanquerillo, 1839

L’Illustration horticole, Imprimerie et lithographie de F. et E. Gyselnyck, 1854-1896.

A mock orange plant (Philadelphus coronarius)- flowering branch. Coloured lithograph by B. Chirat, 1850

Ten bees (Apis species), coloured etching by M. Harris, 1766

Common Brimstone, Red Admiral, and White Butterflies, painting in high resolution by Joris Hoefnagel, late 16th century

Émile-Antoine Bayard’s Illustrations for Around the Moon by Jules Verne, 1870

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