Cactus/Ser, Doug Shelton

Doug Shelton often integrates anthropomorphized plants and objects into scenes of the American southwest. Cactus/Ser shows a succulent plant walking onto a beach covered in shells and starfish. He may have taken inspiration from the stenocereus eruca, or the creeping devil cactus. This rare cactus, native to the Mexican state of Baja California Sur, is known to “crawl” across the desert as it grows new stems and loses old ones.