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Old Watcher, Mossy Blue Boulder

A close view of a blue-gray boulder with bright green moss growing on its upper right side, lying on the forest floor. A gray weathered branch crosses the lower left, and fallen leaves, thin twigs and small green plants surround the stone. The whole surface is rendered in fine swirling lines that give it a painted look.

A mossy boulder is a familiar sight, but here the cracks and mossy hollows in the stone line up into what looks like a face, with eyes, a nose and a mouth. The swirling, painterly texture across the rock strengthens that effect. Cool blue-gray stone against glowing yellow-green moss gives the piece a strong colour contrast. Someone would want it over ten other moss or forest prints because it is an ordinary rock that seems to look back, and they get to point it out to guests.

Artwork by Omaste Witkowski