Every fragment is a real species moving through the world with its own survival story.

I have created an all over print tote bag featuring my latest kaleidoscope pattern, Star Kaleidoscope. At the centre sits the sunflower sea star, with the Yangtze finless porpoise radiating outward alongside tarantula hawks and bursts of honey badgers, forming a living system of motion, tension, and unexpected harmony. It is a kaleidoscope built from real creatures rather than glass and symmetry, where nature itself becomes the shifting geometry.

This is not the kind of kaleidoscope I remember from childhood, where coloured crystals and light fragments spun into abstract decoration. In this version, the prisms have been replaced with uncommon animals, each one chosen for its strangeness, intelligence, or quiet brilliance. The effect is still hypnotic and pattern driven, but it carries a different weight, grounded in the fact that every fragment is a real species moving through the world with its own survival story.

The design has been produced as a durable, all over print tote bag with a double sided print and cotton shoulder straps, available in three sizes. It is intended as both a functional everyday object and a piece of wearable artwork, something that moves through streets, shops, and studios carrying a quiet reminder of how strange and extraordinary life on this planet actually is.