Tardigrade Parade turns to the water bear, that near absurd survival specialist of the microcosm, able to endure cold, radiation and even the vacuum of space. Across each sheet a crowd of small figures moves in close rows, every one set down in a few strokes and still unlike its neighbour. Its structure follows a number that runs through Schellmann's work: each figure is built from seven elements, the parade counts seven rows and seven columns, and exactly seven of the creatures are picked out in colour, each in a different row and a different column. What reads at first as a strict grid begins to shift the moment the single creatures come into focus. The same parade returns in drawing and screen print, each time in another colour and order, becoming a model for life in extremes, where persistence and variation depend on one another.