![]() It turns out he was just finishing art school and was interested. I sent him an email asking if he was free and possibly interested in working on a video game. But his absolute reveling in the squishy fecundity of nature amazed me! His work has such a sense of place. Thomas’ woodblock cuts harken back to an earlier era than I was focused on. So it was in this context that I discovered Th0mas’ illustrations. Each level had text on one side and a level on the other. ![]() I was so taken with her work that originally Incredipede was in the form of a book. I can’t imagine how exciting it must have been to read her book in 1880. She instilled the illustrations with a sense of the wider world. Her work was lavish and colourful and her write-ups included rich details about how locals used the plants. My favorite is Berthe Hoola van Nooten who traveled through Java and Surinam in the late 1800’s. While I was working on the game in Costa Rica I spent hours poring over old illustrated texts of botanists who had traveled to far off corners of the world. I always wanted Incredipede to look like a Victorian illustration. Sterculia Nobilis by Berthe Hoola van Nooten His astounding Phidippus Mystaceus picture caught my eye and I absent-mindedly decided to find out who had taken it. I was looking up jumping spiders while we were in the Philippines because we had a lot of beautiful spiders running around. ![]() I found Thomas through a lucky turn of chance while I was perusing Wikipedia. ![]() I would like to introduce you to a talented young man by the name of Thomas Shahan. ![]()
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