Opabinia Shorts
Description: This design brings the bizarre and fascinating Opabinia to life, a prehistoric creature famous for its five eyes and otherworldly anatomy. The artwork emphasizes its surreal vision—literally and metaphorically—connecting its multiple lenses to the idea of seeing reality from different perspectives at once. The quote reinforces this concept, suggesting a fragmented world unified through perception and control, symbolized by its distinctive claw. With a clean, modern graphic style and cool-toned palette, the piece blends science, imagination, and philosophy into a visually striking composition. It appeals to those intrigued by ancient life, evolutionary oddities, and the concept of perception beyond human limits.
Description: The Tully monster was a soft-bodied, aquatic creature that lived about 300 million years ago and is Illinois' official state fossil. It was about a foot long with a torpedo-shaped body, a long snout with a claw-like mouth, and two eyes on stalks. While some research in 2016 suggested it was a type of jawless fish, its classification remains a mystery, with other studies arguing for an invertebrate or a completely different lineage I miss them a lot.
