Creature Mugs
Description: The series is based on a 19th century theory called Ontogeny Recapitulate Phylogeny. It is the idea of an organism going though it’s history of its species during growth and development. I have this concept in my mind since A.P. Biology in High School, and also goes along with my interest in the process of metamorphosis. I will put a new image on teepublic weekly, for 40 weeks, then it is born into the world. This is image 7 of 40
Description: The manta ray is a giant of the deep, with fearsome-looking horn-shaped cephalic fins around its mouth, which once saw this creature named the 'devil fish.' Sailors feared them and believed these alien-looking apparitions were capable of sinking boats by pulling down their anchors. But despite their strange appearance and the demonic connotations of their name, these winged chondrichthyans are entirely harmless, living exclusively off plankton - like many of the biggest creatures of the world's oceans, they live off the smallest. The patterning on the back of a manta ray is unique to that animal, and those painted here are all based off real manta rays currently swimming the world's oceans.
Description: the goddess in Hinduism, one of the ten dasamahavidya. Kali is a violent form of Shakti and appears in mythology as the destroyer of demons. The wrath of Kali is so terrible that it threatens the existence of the world, so a special theme in mythology is the pacification of Kali.
