Coelacanth (continuous)

The theme of the fossil fish is important to the overall investigation of marine ecology. Rachel Carson wrote about the sea from a poetic and scientific perspective. The sea holds the origin of lifeforms in it including this once thought extinct survivor from a much older period in evolution. I drew the Coelacanth from a preserved version (dead of course sadly) in the Ulster Museum supplementing the yellow decayed and sad looking creature with more life affirming secondary material of photographs of this amazing creature. The technique is a drawing on lens paper in several layers (3)- these layers consist of Tail, Front and a golf ball middle layer. This is an allusion to both the melancholic projects Dürer refers to and to plastics and other man-made objects slowly killing of the oceans.