Dragonflies in Every Color

Dragonflies and damselflies pack the frame wing to wing, their slender segmented bodies pointing in every direction. Each insect is rendered in a single flat color, from lime and turquoise to magenta, orange, violet, and charcoal, so the long bodies read almost like colored rods laid across one another. Four transparent wings stretch out from each thorax, veined with fine black lines and sometimes speckled with small dots. Large compound eyes bulge at the front of every head, some yellow, some blue, some matching the body color exactly. The insects overlap at all angles, wings crossing wings, so that no patch of white background survives between them. With one solid color per insect and dozens of insects layered together, the surface breaks naturally into as many separate shapes as there are dragonflies.