This piece is kind of a follow up to my piece Mother Mycelium. I was sketching different owls one night and just playing around with things and thought that they concentric stripes of the Barred Owl looked like turkey tail mushrooms. When I did a rough drawing of it, it worked and so I kept embellishing, picturing it as a tiny little mushroom owl that goes from tree to tree, compelling the mushrooms to grow. The title FAE is kind of a double entendre. In the mushroom growing world, it stands for Fresh Air Exchange but also, in western folklore, it's a word that sums up a group of supernatural beings like fairies and nature spirits, which it most certainly is!