This drawing was completed in May 2020. Part of a series entitled Surreal Trees, an Osteo-Rhizophor is a "Bone Mangrove". In the same vein as Osteoborgs and Phytoborgs, this Osteo-Rhizophor might be an example of exobiology, or might exist on Earth in the very distant future. This drawing contains several surreal elements but does not fit completely into the surreal rubric. There are elements of scale incongruity and overall strangeness, but the tree’s form remains a realizable 3-dimensional shape. The work also includes a high degree of detail in the water, mountains, and reflections so that the imposing main subject is somewhat counterbalanced in focus. This austere and irreal future vision is intended to convey distance in time, space, and kinship: this orb-like mangrove tree with boney tube-like shell parts might have come from familiar plants, but the relationship is distant.

The drawing was done entirely by hand with graphite on Bristol board (as with all my work). Calculations of transforms and planar projections were done by hand or using slide rules and/or various other analog techniques.