Dead Animals Into Transparent Art! Usually, we try to avoid fish and other creatures once their time has passed -- the smell can be unbearable.
However, if those dead animals were somehow made into something beautiful, like this work by Japanese artist Iori Tomita, we may just let them in the house. Your first thought is probably of some hard work done in Photoshop, but that‘s not at all what‘s going on here. These are actual bones and cartilage from fish, turtles, lizards, birds and other wild things. Blue Fish. Chameleon. Pink Fish. Lobster. Turtle. Squid. Red Fish. Seahorse. Ernst Haeckel. Ernst Haeckel Ernst Haeckel: Christmas of 1860 (age 26) Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (February 16, 1834 – August 9, 1919[1]) was a German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor and artist who discovered, described and named thousands of new species, mapped a genealogical tree relating all life forms, and coined many terms in biology, including anthropogeny, ecology, phylum, phylogeny, stem cell, and the kingdom Protista.
Kunstformen der Natur. Plates from Ernst Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur (Artforms of nature) (1904) Ordered by plate number. 2.
Thalamphora 8. Discomedusae 37. Siphonophorae 42. Discomedusae. Realistic Jellies. Ophiodea. Siphonophorae. Gamochonia. Ostraciontes. Actiniae. Chaetopoda. Ascidiae. Prosobranchia. Cyrtoidea. Decapoda. Hexacoralla. Diatomea.