Chimera Paradox

Color Pencil on Paper, Digital (Procreate)
2024

“Inside a termite’s gut lives Mixotricha paradoxa, a microscopic organism comprising hundreds of thousands of smaller life-forms. M. paradoxa is an extreme example of how all plants and animals— including ourselves—
have evolved to contain multitudes.”
–– Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan, The Beast with Five Genomes