Lake Lewisia #1341

Keeping an art collective in the black was never an easy job, however commercial one’s works might be, and so none of them were feeling particularly selective when someone offered funding in exchange for a few commissioned landscapes and animal portraits. There was a great deal of cloak and dagger about it, and the collective all nearly died playing at detectives to reveal the Dorian Gray-esque bargain to which they had become unwitting parties. Had they known that the goal was to preserve endangered animals and threatened ecosystems, transferring the poachers’ bullets and loggers chainsaws to their canvas counterparts, they would have done the work for free, though they saw no reason to mention that after the fact.

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