Challenge no. 20: pencil, garden, 10 mins; idea 'subtract'. These are what remains of the strawberry leaves after the caterpillars have eaten. The plants have been reduced to a filigree of foliage. This seemed an appropriate subject for the theme of 'subtract'. Equally, it seemed fitting to use the leaf-stencil to subtract what remained uneaten. These voracious caterpillars have transformed the strawberry leaves to a filagree of vegetation. Quite what effect this will have on the green strawberry fruit, I don't know. Maybe they will never ripen. RIP Eric Carle (1929-2021) author of 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' (1969). |