Plant Chimaera Ⅰ

A single stylized plant stem rises symmetrically on a plain off-white ground, built from distinct botanical parts stacked vertically: a pair of dark blue-green serrated leaves at the base, two tight yellow-green spiraling fiddleheads above them, a cluster of jagged mid-green lobed leaves, and a coral-orange, ring-spotted bulbous form crowning the top. The stem and forms are rendered with fine dotted and linear texture in indigo outline, and the sheet bears pencil annotations below the image (edition number at lower left, "Plant Chimaera Ⅰ" at center, and the artist's signature at lower right). Ralph Kiggell, water color on washi, 2021.