OldCity in a Giant Turtle

OldCity in a Giant Turtle – When Nature Becomes a City

🌀 What is a Galápagos giant tortoise doing in the city? Or rather, what is a city doing inside of her? This surreal idea emerged during a journey to the Galápagos Islands, watching a giant tortoise move with timeless slowness, as if carrying centuries on its back. I imagined a forgotten civilization seeking refuge within the folds of her shell, an old city, breathing, alive, and hidden from the noise of the world. 🌆 OldCity in a Giant Turtle is an original watercolor artwork where architecture and organic form merge into one. Houses and towers grow like moss on her shell, suggesting a poetic and impossible symbiosis between the ancient rhythm of nature and the rush of human expansion. This turtle is an ark, a wandering myth, a sentient landscape. Perhaps she is the last surviving balance between Earth and humanity. 🌱 Part of the Urbanimal series: an urban bestiary where animals reclaim the metropolis, reshaping it through a symbolic, ecological, and dreamlike lens. 🎨 Original watercolor on paper, signed and certified. 📦 Worldwide shipping available.

Inspired by the giant tortoises encountered in the distant Galapagos Islands

This series symbolically and surreally explores the cohabitation of animals with an urban landscape. Here the ecological approach that distinguishes human/nature relationship is central by inviting us to perceive the earth as a living entity, as a large garden in which all the ignored fragments of the landscape offer us opportunities for regeneration. This was inspired by Gilles Clément's concept of "Third Landscape." All works are signed and certified.