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The Hiss

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Free Shipping on all US orders for prints. Shipping internationally is entirely possible! Please CONTACT us for details.

All orders can take up to 10 business days for delivery, more during holidays. Metal prints will be delivered 15 days from order date. We are a small business and all shipped products have a personal touch from the artist.

All paper prints are on fine art semi-gloss photographic paper unless otherwise specified.

Please excuse the watermark on all digital images, it is the only way to prevent copyright infringement and AI training; your physical prints will not carry the watermark.

THE HISS
In early May, 2025, I was driving home and came around a bend in a fast paced road to find a large Snapper trying to cross. I pulled over, jumped out, stopped traffic, and the turtle got scared and turned around and went back in the direction it had been coming from.

We know that turtles are directional, and when we help them across the road we MUST keep them going in the direction they were pointed. Otherwise they will just turn around and try crossing the dangerous road again. So I waited and waited for 20 minutes for this turtle to decide to cross again, in which case I would help it. But there was no sign of that happening. So I grabbed a blanket from my car, crawled up the bank the turtle was hiding on under the forsythia bushes, and threw the blanket over his entire body.

He HEAVED himself up on this legs with all his might and started snapping at the blanket. I grabbed him on the back edge above each back leg and pulled him towards me and lifted him up. I waddled him across the road (what a sight!) and laid him down on the edge of the woods on the other side, lifted the blanket, and he turned around and HISSED at me and HISSED at me and it was AWESOME to see. So I came back to Earth Tongue Studio and immediately started this huge drawing (the original 40” x 36”) just to be able to stay in that hiss.

What I felt from this drawing was the spiral of time, the ancientness of life on Earth, and that the future remains unwritten. The Turtle, the Earth, is still writing the story, of which we are all a part. It is a call for our remembering of that, the sensitivity needed in our actions, and also a reminder that the Earth will continue no matter what. I find a deep comfort in that.