Macrowing

Wings are sophisticated little machines but they don’t always guarantee freedom. Quick story on that note: years ago, the big bug pictured below was trapped in our warehouse and died beating its wings against our closed windows. It couldn’t get out - it was too high up - we couldn’t help it either. Eventually it wore out and fell out of the sky… I scanned it in as I do most things:

A couple of years later we magnified the wing, vectorized its outline, burned a screen, and printed the one of a kind wallet below using macrowing likeness: