An old friend of Ty’s had rats as pets when she was a kid and as an adult had an opossum taking shelter in her garage that she was very concerned about so Ty created this artwork for her, and then put prints of it out at his weekend market booths and was astonished to discover how popular opossums are. Dopey, slogging along with no rizz, somehow leaning on the evolutionarily extraordinary survival trait of playing dead, or just hissing. Opossum defenders hail the eating of ticks, the inability to get rabies, and the being of the only Northern American Marsupial. Opossum lovers carry gloves while driving to check dead opossums for living babies; Ty met two people who found babies that way and raised them. One person spoke of going into her bedroom in the dark, turning on the lights and being startled by an upside down opossum hanging from a tree outside the window, equally startled. Now if Ty can’t think of what to draw he draws an opossum; look for the many, many opossums in his artworks.