Limited Edition Print - Antarctic Seadragon
As a marine biologist, I loved the field of vicariance biogeography. Vicariance is the physical division of organisms based on environmental change. Studying this at a time before the advanced genetic technologies we have today, some imagination was required (at times) to align variation in morphology with historical shifts in geography.
One day in 2003 I was struck by the question of what a seadragon might look like if it lived in Antarctica. I imagined that it would have snowflakes for fins and have the delicate transparency of plankton. It took another 19 years before I drew it. The image conveys the fragility of our marine life with our warming and increasingly acid oceans.
A4 (21 x 29.7cm) - Hemp Fine Art paper - 100 available in the series
A3 (29.7 x 42cm) - Hemp Fine Art paper - 50 available in the series
As a marine biologist, I loved the field of vicariance biogeography. Vicariance is the physical division of organisms based on environmental change. Studying this at a time before the advanced genetic technologies we have today, some imagination was required (at times) to align variation in morphology with historical shifts in geography.
One day in 2003 I was struck by the question of what a seadragon might look like if it lived in Antarctica. I imagined that it would have snowflakes for fins and have the delicate transparency of plankton. It took another 19 years before I drew it. The image conveys the fragility of our marine life with our warming and increasingly acid oceans.
A4 (21 x 29.7cm) - Hemp Fine Art paper - 100 available in the series
A3 (29.7 x 42cm) - Hemp Fine Art paper - 50 available in the series
As a marine biologist, I loved the field of vicariance biogeography. Vicariance is the physical division of organisms based on environmental change. Studying this at a time before the advanced genetic technologies we have today, some imagination was required (at times) to align variation in morphology with historical shifts in geography.
One day in 2003 I was struck by the question of what a seadragon might look like if it lived in Antarctica. I imagined that it would have snowflakes for fins and have the delicate transparency of plankton. It took another 19 years before I drew it. The image conveys the fragility of our marine life with our warming and increasingly acid oceans.
A4 (21 x 29.7cm) - Hemp Fine Art paper - 100 available in the series
A3 (29.7 x 42cm) - Hemp Fine Art paper - 50 available in the series