Don Stewart
— Eye-ronically, I was initially trying to make an “ear” pun out of corn, which didn’t work so well. With a little bit of squashing, I could make the grain look much more like an eye, but where was the pun in that?
The idea of using different colored kernels to make a mosaic of the eye was the key: a ‘Cornea’ made of corn. The real irony lies in the fact that the coloration of individual kernels is a random genetic event, depending on which pollen grain happens to land on a particular strand of silk. Thus, it is quite possible that somewhere an ear of corn exists that looks just like this one.
Another kernel of humor is hiding in the far left of the drawing. This tiny aquatic bird is a rare species called a lacrimal duck.