art made with printing snails

What eats an artsy printmaker snail ?

Cannily perceptive snails and slugs love half-eaten leaves rendered with near-miniaturist exactitude ready for soft-ground copper etching.

slug etching

Copper plate etching of slug-eaten leaf (leaf from La Réunion island, Indian ocean).

Where do snails live ?

Philosophy of a genetics slug : a certain level of institutional sluggishness has been vital to our survival.

It's not that molluscs are so smart, it's just that snails and slugs stay with problems longer.

Albert Einstein, How long would it take a snail to slide around the world?

Wild things as love leaves

Love ivy leaf, copper plate etching

The scientific truth about snails, slow painting and anti-efficiency artworks.