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The great thing about interlace art is that it forces you to focus on the least detailed portion of the page, which in this case is the text. The characters read around the circle from the top trilobite clock-wise to its companion. These lines are from a verse in the nirvana sutra which was found on the wikipedia article on the "Iroha" pangram , which is what I originally wanted to put in the text. The verses are here in their original form with the translation found in the article:

諸行無常
是生滅法
生滅滅已
寂滅為楽

That everything is impermanent
Is the way all things come into and go out of existence.
It is when these processes are over
That we see true happiness in nirvana.

The characters are stylized in a faux celtic font style as best as I can convert it. In the large circle the characters read water, wood, fire, metal, with earth in the center. The version of earth used here is the Japanese rather than Chinese. The elements are both from the four quadrant gods and the feng shui, only it is set in the system of the cardinal gods (all in the Japanese version) with Genbu as water, colored black, symbolizing winter, north, and depicted as a tortoise (in this case sea turtle) and snake; next is Seiryuu as wood, colored blue or green, symbolizing spring, east, and depicted as a dragon; next is Suzaku as fire, colored red, symbolizing summer, south, and depicted as a vermilion bird or phoenix; next is Byakko as metal, colored white, symbolizing autumn, west, and depicted as a white tiger; lastly in the center is the yellow dragon as earth, colored yellow, symbolizing the center, and depicted as, of course, a yellow dragon. The animals in the circle are all living: they are as follows, a sea lamprey, a salmon, an aye-aye, a grub, two beard pulling men (can't get anymore traditional than that), a red-ruffed lemur, a fossa, and millipedes (which I unwittingly made to represent an inappropriate symbol). The animals on the outer-circle are all extinct. They are from the top lunaspis with gemuendina in the armored fins, two trilobites, dimetrodon, euparkeria capensis, rhamphorhynchus gemmingi, archaeopteryx lithographica, ovirapter philoceratops, ambulocetus natans, and procoptodon goliath. Paleo-art referenced from sources such as J. Conway, Heather "Kyoht" Luterman, Charles R. Knight, and [link] .

Media:
Mechanical pencil: .05 mm, HB.
Boldmere Sketch Pad: A4 90 gsm.

Description
The great thing about interlace art is that it forces you to focus on the least detailed portion of the page, which in this case is the text. The characters read around the circle from the top trilobite clock-wise to its companion. These lines are from a verse in the nirvana sutra which was found on the wikipedia article on the "Iroha" pangram , which is what I originally wanted to put in the text. The verses are here in their original form with the translation found in the article:

諸行無常
是生滅法
生滅滅已
寂滅為楽

That everything is impermanent
Is the way all things come into and go out of existence.
It is when these processes are over
That we see true happiness in nirvana.

The characters are stylized in a faux celtic font style as best as I can convert it. In the large circle the characters read water, wood, fire, metal, with earth in the center. The version of earth used here is the Japanese rather than Chinese. The elements are both from the four quadrant gods and the feng shui, only it is set in the system of the cardinal gods (all in the Japanese version) with Genbu as water, colored black, symbolizing winter, north, and depicted as a tortoise (in this case sea turtle) and snake; next is Seiryuu as wood, colored blue or green, symbolizing spring, east, and depicted as a dragon; next is Suzaku as fire, colored red, symbolizing summer, south, and depicted as a vermilion bird or phoenix; next is Byakko as metal, colored white, symbolizing autumn, west, and depicted as a white tiger; lastly in the center is the yellow dragon as earth, colored yellow, symbolizing the center, and depicted as, of course, a yellow dragon. The animals in the circle are all living: they are as follows, a sea lamprey, a salmon, an aye-aye, a grub, two beard pulling men (can't get anymore traditional than that), a red-ruffed lemur, a fossa, and millipedes (which I unwittingly made to represent an inappropriate symbol). The animals on the outer-circle are all extinct. They are from the top lunaspis with gemuendina in the armored fins, two trilobites, dimetrodon, euparkeria capensis, rhamphorhynchus gemmingi, archaeopteryx lithographica, ovirapter philoceratops, ambulocetus natans, and procoptodon goliath. Paleo-art referenced from sources such as J. Conway, Heather "Kyoht" Luterman, Charles R. Knight, and [link] .

Media:
Mechanical pencil: .05 mm, HB.
Boldmere Sketch Pad: A4 90 gsm.