Rox Flame: Wellington NZ Artist, based in Melbourne VIC

Eyeplant

Rox Flame - Wellington New Zealand Artist - Eyeplant - 2006

This is an eyeplant.
Eyeplants are featured in a game I'm currently developing and are quite creepy in some respects, any plant that can see what you are doing is certainly something odd...
Eyeplants are an important part of the life cycles of some planets in the rocket realm, the realm which is under threat from Deathulus the dark destroyer (ruler of the omniverse).
The lifecycle of an eyeplant is as follows:
Eyeplant produces smaller eyeplant offshoots which are filled with light gases that enable them to float on "tethers", these tethers are movable and controlled by the individual small eyeplants, however the main mother eyeplant can gain full control of them at any time needed (for example to hide the offshoots from danger or to help them in defensive training).
The small eyeplants eventually break free from the mother plant and take their movable tethers with them, they control the height in which they fly by compressing and decompressing the gases contained in their gelatinous shells (much like how submarines compress and expand air for the same effect). Once an eyeplant finds a new location to grow, it buries its tether in the ground and it becomes a root system, this root system spreads quickly downward until it reaches the planetary communication nervous system and it then shares its vision with all other eyeplants and with various other evolved plant and animal species on the planet, in this way the entire planet is far more equipped to fend of enemies and develop an advanced knowledge collection.

Created: 
Sun, 17/12/2006