Stick it where the sun shines

My Yeti Crab stickers have found homes in countries I will probably never visit. My Bat stickers have flown across oceans and landed in letterboxes around the world. Every order still feels a little strange to me. A small piece of art made in rural South Australia somehow ends up on a water bottle in Canada, a laptop in Germany or a notebook in the United Kingdom.

Now the Aardvark has joined the journey.

Remember those dreadful trips to the dentist as a kid? The highlight of that nightmare was usually the sticker you got at the end—a cheerful tooth …

Stick it where the sun shines

A creature most people have heard of but few have ever seen. A quiet, odd little specialist that spends its nights digging for termites and minding its own business. Exactly the kind of animal I love drawing.

So the question is no longer whether the Aardvark will travel. The question is where it will end up next.

Will it find its way onto a school folder, a camping mug, a sketchbook, a ute window or a water bottle somewhere on the other side of the world?

I genuinely have no idea.

That is part of the magic of making things. You create them at your kitchen table, in a spare room or a little studio in the country, and then one day they start wandering off on adventures of their own. The Aardvark is ready. Where will you stick yours?

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