Cassie Williamson

Nocturnal Animals in the Dark Forest, 2023

Mixed media

19 ½” x 15 ½”

$450

A shadow box filled with a night time forest scene. Real foraged twigs are arranged to look like trees within the shadow box, and live moss lines the bottom and background like soft forest grass. Grey cardboard creates boulders and rocks. Shades of purple tissue paper creates a dark night sky with hidden fairy lights glowing from underneath creating lighted stars. White tissue paper forms a moon in the upper corner of the box. Arranged throughout the scene or miniature clay animals: an orange fox and black raccoon in the grass, a brown squirrel and white snake with a long red tongue on the rocks, a brown owl with yellow eyes in the tree, a grey opossum with pink nose and tail climbing the tree toward the owl, a black bat hangs upside down from another tree. Lichen borders the outside of the shadow box.