As I was walking through the isles of Harris Teeter looking for an “odd organic object”, I found myself looking at an assorted bag of peppers. I was initially drawn to the peppers because of their ridiculously small size and their bright colors. I noticed form within the bag, a small red bepper that somewhat resembled a tongue. I have now named tongue pepper “Berry”, which is an odd name considering it is a pepper and not a berry. If you tilt Berry a certain way it almost looks like a beluga whale. I drew a beluga whale once and I was quite proud of it. I named the whale I drew “Barry”. So when I noticed my pepper looked like a beluga whale Barry came to mind. I thought “Berry” was funnier though as it’s an organic object pun…kinda. The fact that it looked like a tongue was what initially drew me t o it, but now I see many shapes such as: a whale, a hummingbird, a narwhal, someone with really bad posture, a shrimp… additionally it fits on my finger like a ring. I’m afraid I’m going to get emotionally attached to Berry.