Work on Panel by Mark Westervelt: Reptilis Repere

Long-tailed orange creature with a bird-like beak sits in a pale mint field.

This work on panel is by Reptilis Repere, and is ca. 2015. It is paint on panel. Because the skins are peeled up, anything painted on them is reversed, so he must write text backwards and paint a figure facing right if it is meant to look left. Here, a seated creature with an orange, patchwork body, striped tail and a long thin beak sits on a light mint-green ground. Tiny figures and tall flower-like shapes stand in a row along a pale band near the top. It is 10 inches wide, 1.75 deep and 10 high.

A strange pet with a very good posture.