The City of Sydney commissions Artworks by Australian artists to visually enliven street-level hoardings (used by developers to camouflage building sites)—bringing creativity and visual storytelling into the everyday lives of Sydneysiders.

#Mermaids #DeborahKelly #StreetArt #Sydney #Sealife #Art #Seahorse #Starfish #Wobbegong #Seadragon #Pufferfish #Bluebottles

Neuston, we have a problem: why do we know so little about the creatures floating on the #ocean surface? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/30/neuston-sea-creatures-ocean-surface-science-study

"Known collectively as the #neuston, these creatures are not tied to any one place. Instead, they move with the wind and the water. Sometimes they gather into huge drifts, living islands of #velella and #bluebottles... At other times they clump together around drifting debris or spread out sparsely over hundreds or even thousands of square kilometres."

magical emergency way station

#DesertStructure #TurquoiseArches #MagicalSupplies #BlueBottles #RemoteOutpost #Ancient #Img2Img #AiArt #AiArtists #StableDiffusion

this IRL: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/magical-emergency-way-station-eris-and-ai.html?newartwork=true

John Olsen (1928 – 2023)
‘Popping Blue Bottles’ 2007

Olsen's feeling for the Australian environment was demonstrated in his landscapes that teemed with life, with irregular squiggles and dots imposed on loosely brushed and stained expanses of colour.

Complex floating fleets of bluebottles (Physalia utriculus) arrive on Australian beaches seasonally, often carried by warm currents to more temperate waters. These small blue jellyfish are blown onshore in autumn and winter, less often in summer. Children have been known to pop their inflated blue sails.

#JohnOlsen #Artist #BlueBottles #Australian #Art #Landscape

Two flies today as a reminder that there is beauty in the commonplace and in the lowliest of creatures.

#Photography #InsectsOfMastodon #Bluebottles