ENTRY DESCRIPTION
In the biological world, it seems that only the death of one's own kind is valued. I take fish portraits in the same way as I do people's last photographs, to create a kind of "confrontation" between life and death - when I look directly into the eyes of a fish, I feel as if I am mourning my own kind. This is a kind of equal dialog that transcends species and class, and creates a spiritual collision with the dead.

In the picture, the composition and light and shadow shape the form and weight of death, creating a solemn and heavy funeral atmosphere. The visual impact of a fish splitting its shape is magnified under a flat line of sight. This work is a reverence for life and a mourning for the dead. Referring the fish to an equal status with human beings, it expresses the care and respect for the natural world.

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