2005

Mark Eliott

North Bondi, NSW

Phycoduras Equis (male with eggs)
2005 Leafy Seadragon Series

Flame worked borosilicate glass
41 H x 51 W x 17 D cm

Like many of us ‘Modern Dads’ this male needs to be involved: carrying the eggs under its tail until gestation.

Staring across the border of the art world to the miracles of science, I build ‘identikit’ pictures from the net of this real, mythological creature I’ve not yet seen.

Photography: Richard Weinstein