▲COSMIC FLORA▼
Cosmic Flora is an illustration for the collaborative illustration exhibition “Plants with Bite” at the Royal Botanical Garden Sydney about the behavior of carnivorous plants.
Byblis liniflora, also known as the Rainbow Plant, is native to northern Australia. It is a very delicate annual carnivorous plant that produces sticky droplets to catch prey and flowers producing a pretty purple flower. With this plant as an starting point and adding the Yellow Utricularia Vulgaris flowers and the red Darlingtonia flowers, I have imagined a scene of a biologist exploring a new planet, collecting samples of life and new plants to study. She is about to cut a flower from the Rainbow Plant, but it is sensitive to the movement and in defence is already wrapping itself around her while she’s hypnotised by the beauty of
