In the Garden , an intricate watercolor and gouache painting brimming with garden life by Justin L’Amie, includes yellow dandelionlike flowers sprouting through empty space near a lingering house cat and a ladybug finding solace in a pot of herbs. In other paintings, moths flutter, arcing back and forth in the evening light as they look for floral nectar and sap in a cherry tree, as in Moth Resting . Climbing along a neighbor’s fence, a cobalt dahlia and peachy windflowers with extensive stems provide a base camp to an assembly of vermillion hatchlings in Spiderling . A serpent in The Snake of Warm Welcome slithers through the garden grounds, picking up fungi, lichen and insects along the way.

Dismal Nitch Polyphemus Moth is L’Amie’s eighth solo exhibition at PDX Contemporary Art,

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