I actually created this the second semester of my freshman year of college. One the first day of this class (Foundations of 2D Design, if I recall correctly) we were asked to go on a scavanger hunt to find ten similar natural objects. Some people came back with pebbles, pinecones, or sticks, I was lucky enough to find a dried out Clammy Ground Cherry (Physalis heterophylla Nees.) plant. You may be more familiar with it's cultivated variety, the Chinese Lantern plant. First we completed a large series of still lifes based upon our finds (I may post a handful of the 41 I did), and then we did this project which is basically a continuous scene six panels long based on our objects. The veins in the dried out lanterns (i.e. seedpods) of the plant reminded me of desert dunes, and so this surreal landscape was born.
