VELVETY BLOOM

Recently landed: Velvety bloom

From the pages of the rare books we have had the enormous honour of looking at first hand, and working from, digitally, in a collage, we have learned that the model is not survival of the fittest but rather that community is crucial (for survival). Indigenous and Western sciences and study offers us insights into the more-than-human flow. So, too, our work with native wildlife, shaping how we read that which is before us and our personal mantra, ‘never rush a possum’.

Continuing reading on Marginalia.

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5th of March, 2026

Our research into the Velvet ant led us to the collections of the Baillieu library, State Library Victoria (SLV), and Melbourne Museum, specifically. With terrific thanks to Susan Millard, Curator of Rare Books, at The University of Melbourne; Dr Anna Welch, Principal Collection Curator, History of the Book, State Library Victoria; and Hayley Webster, Manager, Library, Museum Victoria for showing us your collections and ensuring we remained beholden to luminous encasements and furred antennae.