The #InsertAnInvert2024 prompt lens eyes made me think of trilobites. 🐡🧪 Not only do they have the earliest complex eyes we know of with their compound eyes with separate clusters of photo receptors (or ommatidia) each with its own lens to make mosaic-like pictures in their brains, but 🧵1/n

their lenses were hard & made of the mineral calcite! This is one of a series of prints of one of the ubiquitous and wildly successful trilobites, prehistoric creatures which lived for hundreds of millions of years, carved by hand in linoleum, printed onto lovely Japanese washi papers & collaged 🧵