I Love How Delightfully Strange Ancient Whales Look. They Haunt Me. This One Haunts These Walkers Too.

A series of brown board walks are suspended by stilts over a blue pool filled with lily pads. Facing away from the camera near the top, there is a black man walking on one branch of the boardwalk on the other branch there is a multiracial gay couple walking hand in hand. Near the bottom, there is a woman with a hijab walking. To her right there is a black woman running after a black girl. None of them see the skeleton of a basilosaurus, an ancient whale, in the pond in the far right of the canvas. Near the center one asian woman pauses to look at the whale.

I love how delightfully strange ancient whales look. They haunt me. This one haunts these walkers too.

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Bubblegum Punk

Art blog of Ari Coester. He/him. Mid 20s. I post comic concept art, cute animal watercolor, and surrealist illustration. My favorite things to draw are animals and monsters.

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