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The Snail of Midnight Parables: whimsical art phone wallpaper in black, navy and orange, for iPhone and Android lock screens

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The Snail of Midnight Parables

A whimsical art wallpaper for iPhone and Android lock screens, from Morrow's daily wallpaper drop.

Free JPEG sized for phone screens. The Morrow app has the 4K original.

Collection
Whimsical Cartographies
Released

Colors

Black, navy, orange, green and beige. Tap a color to copy it.

About this wallpaper

In the quiet altitudes above the dreaming world travels the Great Snail of Parables, moving with deliberate, ancient grace across bridges woven from fallen shooting stars. Its spiral shell houses a warm, multi-tiered paper lantern observatory illuminated by captive fireflies, acting as an itinerant sanctuary for forgotten tales and gentle midnight thoughts.

Rendered through the rhythmic craft of relief woodcut prints and crisp graphic cel contours, every gouged line celebrates the deliberate tactility of hand-pressed ink on fibrous mulberry paper. Deep nocturnal blacks anchor the vertical expanse, allowing the gilded amber windows to beacon softly across the calm midnight air.

Listen to the story

A new art wallpaper on your lock screen, every morning

Morrow is a free wallpaper app for iPhone and Android. Each day brings a new piece of art made for phone screens, with the story behind it, and many pieces come in more than one version in the app.