Small curled eye-tail
Original raster: 164 × 140 pixels. Print sample pending.
In this proposed story, the antlered beetle takes the path past the orchard. It expects to find a snack. Instead, it finds five fruits watching it arrive.
The narrow pear notices the footsteps first. The round apple notices the pause. The tilted fruit looks toward the little curled eye-tail, which is already taking the long way around the tree. Every watcher has its own drawing and its own place on the page.
Overhead, a winged tear-heart drifts into view. The fruits make no promises about the weather, but they keep looking up together. For a moment, the beetle forgets to be hungry.
This scene, its relationships and its title are fictional ideas for Mattea to shape. They are not artist-approved canon or a personal biography. The moving images use her original photographed marks and paper tones, with no redraw.
