It began on a road trip with two of my good friends… we had just left a campsite, and I was about to put on my hiking boot, when i noticed an ant that had found its way in there… By now, we were a few kilometres away from the campsite, far far away from its warm and familiar nest. I think we may have flung him out the window… ants, they’re sturdy dudes…
But yeah, my friend and I started giving this ant its own life story, about an ant who had been seperated from his colony, and forced to find his identity in a world without his colony. Ants are a collective species, and usually don’t exist without their colonies, and we wondered how the ant would come to grips with who he was, now that he was alone… away from his queen, his family, his love.
Does he have a purpose to live anymore?
He is then exposed to a world of wonderful new things, strange lands, all kinds of insects that teach him life lessons along his journey. I was going to make a webcomic out of this, but I don’t really have the skillz to pull it off, both artistically or in terms of website savviness. But the vagrant ant is, in a way, is a sort of story of my own life, as a wanderer in my life, trying to learn and grow and find meaning.
One day, I will create this comic!
