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Thinking about possible futures for pollinators for #ManufacturedEcosystems I’ve imagined a future where habitat restoration and pollinator gardens are embraced, placed everywhere they can be in an urban environment including residential front and backyards and on green roofs combined with a move to climate friendly energy sources like these rooftop solar panels. This multimedia with linocut map shows many trees, 🧵

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As described this is my 15” x 15” multimedia artwork depicting an urban neighbourhood as a map showing semi-detached homes, roads, one apartment building, vehicles and vegetation from above. On this utopian imagined future all front, back and side yards are green with flowers, pollinator gardens and many trees. The rooftops all have pollinator gardens and/or solar panels. A single car and two bicyclists with bike trailers are on the road. Road and buildings are simply depicted in grey with yellow line.

Yes, it’s a spider. Sorry, arachnophobes.

This is a yellow garden spider, also known as a writing spider in its web. For #ManufacturedEcosystems this is another imagined animal interaction with a robobee or other pollination drone. Spiders have some PR issues so I don’t know if I can make people empathize with spiders whose food sources are being depleted by the decline in insect pollinators. 🧵1/n

#linocut #printmaking #nature #yellowGardenSpider #spiderWeb #pollination #orbWeaver #MastoArt

This is my 8”x10” linocut of a yellow garden spider, also known as a writing spider in its web against a green background. The yellow garden spider (Argiope aurantia) are quite lovely. The larger female spiders like this lady are striking with their yellow and black markings on their abdomen and their mainly white cephalothorax. They are 19-28 mm (0.20” - 0.35”) in body length so I have printed her more or less life sized, on her web with its distinctive feature, the zigzag stabilimentum, a telltale sign of this specific orb spider found from Canada to Columbia. There is a black robobee pollination drone caught in her web. It has a vertical shaft, two wings and a tripod base and is a bit smaller than the spider.

More pro-pollinator propaganda for #ManufacturedEcosystems: in a future where we rely on pollination drones in the absence of natural pollinators can we be relied upon to pollinate wildflowers? Plants we deem weeds?

The loss in pollinator species & just sheer numbers is frankly staggering but we can make choices to better protect pollinators now to ensure a future where they persist & fill their niche.🧵

#linocut #printmaking #sciart #lettering #wildColumbine #wildflowers #pollination #ecology

My 11” x 14” linocut print shows a Canada or wild columbine with green stems and leaves and hanging red and yellow flowers at the bottom. There are three different models of pollination drones above the wildflowers at various heights, printed in black. One is the robobee with vertical shaft, two wings and tripod base. One looks like a robot crane fly. One looks like a miniature 4 winged drone with multiple feet. On top of this in magenta sans serif type is the slogan “DON’T LET DRONES DECIDE”

Other insectivorous species may be in trouble as pollinator populations fall. We cannot simply replace bees and other pollinators with robots.

#linocut #printmaking #sciart #pollination #mastoArt #loggerheadShrike #shrike #wildlife #ManufacturedEcosystems

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