FEBRUARY 28, 2022. GRACE EBERT

All images © Gaspart

Twined with leafy vines, Gaspart’s series of digital illustrations titled Birds, Plants & Musicemits the calming, lyrical presence we need right now. The collection, which was inspired by research detailing the effects of melodies and other audible compositions on vegetation, centers on lone instrumentalists with exaggerated limbs and gargantuan feet. Each casually sits on the ground or curls forward in a crouch to pluck the strings of an upright bass and buzz into a trumpet.

In a note to Colossal, Gaspart shares that he begins with a preliminary sketch that he then recreates with shapes in complementary palettes.[…]

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