Shop Other Worlds, on a mounted acrylic print for your home

About the Design

My son demands to know which world I want to adventure in: dinosaur world, desert world, or forest world. I choose forest, “because I love trees” I tell him. So along we go, stomping through the forest, which really consists of me changing his brother while he walks around in circles. “There are a lot of vines in this forest” he says. So many, in fact, that we had to slash them down with machetes. I mentioned that I didn’t have a machete so he kindly hands me 100 imaginary machetes from his backpack and I smile at his idea of generosity. A few more moments and I yell “what was that?!” Hoping he will use the opportunity to add something to our adventure. “Oh no!” He replies, as he ducks behind me, “Arrows! It’s a trap!”. The vines weren’t just vines, they were traps. Some launched arrows and others dropped axes. We dodged this way and that and he narrates me through the forest where everything we come across is ‘treacherous’, from sword plants to endless traps. Now there is no way out, he explains. When he is looking for me to add something to an adventure he poses an impossible task. I have two options: come of with idea after idea that he will shoot down, or come up with a solution inventive enough that it sparks his imagination further. I tried climbing the trees and they were too thick, so that’s when I saw it. “Look, there.” I whisper. “What’s a pipe doing in the forest?”. He takes the bait and looks up in awe. This is the illustration of the world that he described.