> A painting of a whimsical earthworm & its new friend. The friend wears a set of cropped shirts, & a pair of leggings held together by laces in the front, with their hair in a swirling ponytail. They smile, facing you & sitting on a large, flat rock. Binary for “hallo!!” repeats in the background, & a smiley face comes from the worm. To the right is a crunchy, digitized picture of a ptal suspended in liquid, above it illegible scribbles & a bright star. To the left reads the name of the piece.

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“I try not to bother my friends beneath rocks often, but I want to check in on them on occassion. I found my little rolling friends & slimy friends & salamanders as per usual, but today I also met an earthworm! Like most of my friends beneath rocks, it did not speak. But I wondered greatly how its life became this.”