Disperse by Shawn E Russell
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Art Details
| Title: | Disperse |
| Date Created: | October 2025 |
| Copyright: | © (c) Shawn E Russell |
| Genre: | Unpublished Art |
| Mediums: | Graphite, Graphite Pencil |
| Views: | 107 |
| Posted: | 12/8/2025 |
About the Artist
Shawn E Russell
Member Since November 2017
Projects: 2023 Chesley Award Finalist by the ASFA (Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists) 2021 Best in 2D Media at Carmel Arts International Arts Festival 2018 Chesley Award Finalist by the Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists 2018 Bronze Category Honor in Infected By Art Volume 6 Galleries: EveryDayOriginal.com, Arch Enemy Arts, WOWxWOW, Quirky Fox
Location: Indiana USA
Description
Created for an exhibition with Indiana State University to raise awareness about the beneficial impact of bats on our local ecology. Disperse features a bat in flight while colonized by fruiting fungi exploring a theme I enjoy of modifying food chain dynamics. Rooting a completely sedentary organism like fungi onto the back of one of an extremely mobile mammal capable of flight in a relationship that thrives. Much like fruit bats will act as pollinators to help disperse pollen, this bat disperses mycelial spores for it's fungal colony. Part of an ongoing series by Shawn that disrupts power dynamics in the food web in ways that are mutually beneficial to those at the bottom and the top. Wildlife Referenced: Cape Long Eared Bat (Nycteris thebaica) with creative liberties taken + fictional fungi based on many species with white caps and long stems.
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