A pocket menagerie · Kingdoms of life

The wild,
worn over the
heart.

Pocket-printed animal portraits, cropped from hand-painted originals. One species at a time, we give voice to the majesty of the kingdoms of life.

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The menagerie

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Small Wonders bugs, frogs, reptiles

8 species

Plants & Fungi flowers, mushrooms

2 species
№ 001 · How it's made

One animal.
One pocket.
One long look.

STEP 01

Watched

Hours in the blind, at the river, in the zoo if we have to. We don't paint animals we've only seen in photographs.

STEP 02

Painted

Great care is taken to capture the essence: the plumage, the coat, the feather, the scale. Not a photograph of the animal. The feeling of it.

STEP 03

Printed

Printed in small batches on heavyweight cotton, pocket-only. Every species gets a field tag: kingdom, phylum, class, the story of the animal you're wearing.

Every animal we wear is one we've watched. A long, slow look that became a brush, that became a pocket, that became the thing you carry out the door.
From the studio · On painting the peacock
The menagerie, by taxonomy

Traverse the tree of life

Every species we paint hangs somewhere on the tree. Climb a branch, meet the menagerie — and where a branch is bare, put your own animal on it.

Tree of life
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Put your animal on the tree

Tell us the species you've stopped for in the wild. If the studio paints it, the first tee off the run is yours.

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