“Forest Ram; Forest Ewe; Forest Lamb”

Tara Tucker’s meticulously rendered drawings portray bizarre yet realistic hybrid creatures from a future animal kingdom, free from the fetters of human intervention. Imagining the evolution of various species to survive climactic and environmental changes, Tucker documents the survival of the fittest through cross-species breeding and even imaginative flora-fauna mergers. Often displaying convincingly anthropomorphic emotions, such as anger or fear, the creatures’ zoological accuracy is due to Tucker’s familiarity with animal skeletons acquired in her youth by assisting her mother, a taxidermist at the local Natural History Museum.

@ Rena Bransten Gallery (via Nature Morph)

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