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Electric Lace: Chartreuse Lichen on a Weathered Post

A weathered gray wooden post stands upright, its cracked grain visible from top to bottom. Bright yellow-green lichen spreads across it in lacy, branching clusters, thicker along the right edge and at the base. The background is a dark, soft-focus woodland of brown and olive tones.

A few inches of weathered gray post become the stage for a tangle of electric chartreuse lichen. Most nature photographs of wood or moss are flat green or flat brown. Here the quiet silvery wood and the dark, soft woodland behind it make one thin, glowing thread of colour the whole point. Someone wants this piece because that vivid yellow-green sits so calmly in a muted, earthy frame, and because the fine detail rewards standing close.

Artwork by Omaste Witkowski