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AquaClaire @aquaclaire.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

@weplanetint.bsky.social @georgemonbiot.bsky.social This is a really interesting video, making the point that very few people see the gorgeous colours of the live fish, which disappear when stressed or dead. Herewith some screenshots. Colours described by […] [Original post on ecoevo.social]

Tuna on the surface, with shimmering turquoise sides

Tuna head view with orange snout, pink cheeks, ochre streak down the side

Tuna flank with bronzy pinky iridescence, and some green

Tuna skin near black with bright yellow "finlets"

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AquaClaire @aquaclaire.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

New priorities will emerge from a whole-of-society rethink. (JC3 speeches are at jc3malaysia.com/news-events/speeche…). The arts may suggest different perspectives, often stimulating. See the startling photos & enjoy the soundscapes. Discuss the […] [Original post on ecoevo.social]

Huge photo inside a rainforest, next to the exhibition’s introductory panel.

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AquaClaire @aquaclaire.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

‘The Line’ was launched during a meeting of Malaysia’s Joint Committee on Climate Change (JC3), reiterating on approach the first statement of the central bank’s earlier call for integrating nature-related considerations into all assessments of risk & […] [Original post on ecoevo.social]

Around the curving staircase leading to the exhibition, a photo of rainforest in sunlight, with this message: “Alam, nadi ekonomi. Nature underpins all economic activities.”

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AquaClaire @aquaclaire.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

The current exhibition grew out of an earlier project, ‘Line of Least Resistance’: photo-essay at www.ianteh.com/line-of-least-resist… When the forest seemed infinite, the easiest path of growth was to exploit the resources and expand the city into […] [Original post on ecoevo.social]

Photo of a spiralling multilevel highway complex, screenshot from Ian Teh’s homepage.

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AquaClaire @aquaclaire.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

The Line: intensely thought-provoking photos by Ian Teh, exploring the fast-changing relationship between city and forest, & different perspectives on economic growth, nature, & interdependence. At Bank Negara Museum & Art Gallery in Kuala Lumpur, for 6 months […] [Original post on ecoevo.social]

Announcement of the exhibition, screenshot from website. The text, set over two of the photos, reads: ‘THE LINE | GARIS SEMPADAN: Melangkaui Pinggir Belantara | Beyond the Forest’s Edge | 29.09.2026-04.04.2027 | Muzium dan Galeri Seni | Bank Negara Malaysia’

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AquaClaire @aquaclaire.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Regulatory measures & safeguards desirable before expansion of datacentres for AI, in the case of Indonesia. #Indonesia #datacenters #environment #policy #datacentres

Article entitled " Indonesia needs rules before scaling AI data centers", by Randy Taufik & Ahmad Novindri Aji Sukma, from the Jakarta Post of 2 Oct 2026.

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AquaClaire @aquaclaire.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

A tiny seahorse amid seagrass, hand painted in Wajima. Converters for Platinum, Pilot & Sailor fountain pens may be bought online at bungubox.shop/collections/maki-e_co… 🧵 1/2 @iconicfishes #makie #seahorse #IconicFishes #FountainPen

A tiny orange and red seahorse amid fronds of seagrass, painted onto the glass of a fountain pen converter, rarely visible to anyone but the owner. The whole pen is shown; its barrel and cap have tiny pieces of seashell from the inner iridescent pearl layer inlaid into lacquer, in the technique known as raden.

Detail of the painted seahorse and seagrass.

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AquaClaire @aquaclaire.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

A book to celebrate bamboo, a sustainable renewable material of extraordinary versatility; a symbol & practical example of lightweight strength & resilience. Seeking preorders to fund initial print run, over half way now! 🧵 3/ 📖 crowdfunder ⬆️ #sustainable #renewable #bamboo #materials #HongKong

3 images of bamboo, with the plant at the centre, structures & baskets & furniture to the left, steamer baskets for dim sum food delicacies on the right.

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AquaClaire @aquaclaire.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

This image of shellfish gathering in Edo (Tokyo) c.1850 suggests joyful abundance (then). It’s from musubikiln.com/blogs/journal/a-bite… 2/2 #Japan #seafood #fisheries

Shellfish gathering, by Utagawa Sadahide, 1849–52. Artwork shows the seashore teeming with people, boats, small food stalls... Original in Ota Memorial Museum of Art, Japan.

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AquaClaire @aquaclaire.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

Diverse habitats for a wide range of marine life, skilled fishermen incentivised to move from afar: a fascinating history of Tokyo's glorious seafood, of changing catches & tastes - & mentioning hopes of habitat restoration? […] [Original post on ecoevo.social]

Shinagawa: Sunrise. Painting of laden sailing boats approaching a landing place with a street of small houses and shops to which porters are carrying goods. From The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido, Utagawa Hiroshige, Tokyo National Museum.

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AquaClaire @aquaclaire.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/05/2026

The 1859 artwork ‘Ocean Life’ gives a wonderful impression of the real-life complexity which few humans then had the chance to see; Helen Scales describes some of its 75 species. For those of us looking out for #IconicFishes, a #seahorse & #cornetfish stand out. 🧵 3/ #OceanArt #HelenScales #SeaLife

An underwater scene teeming with varied life, painted in watercolour for by Christian Schussele for the ‘Ocean Life’ book and lithograph by James Sommerville, 1859. Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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AquaClaire @aquaclaire.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/05/2026

The fish with trumpet-like snout & the "web-footed horse" illustrated by JB Clark for 'The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen' are surely #IconicFishes - & can you find the seahorse in the second image, 'Water' by Giuseppe Arcimboldo? 🧵 2/ #OceanArt #HelenScales #trumpetfish #Arcimboldo

Black-and-white illustration of Baron Munchausen underwater, riding a horse with fins and webbed feet across a seabed with a scull, limpet-covered chest, and sitting animal with wide ruff. Behind him, crustaceans with menacing pincers. Above, various fish swim by. Illustration by J.B. Clark from Rudolf Erich Raspe, ‘The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1895).

Oil painting of a man’s head, with a pearl necklace & earring, the rest made up of sea creatures. Giuseppe Arcimboldo, ‘Water’, 1566.

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AquaClaire @aquaclaire.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/05/2026

I hugely enjoyed ‘Ocean Art'. It’s teeming with wondrous creatures, & human perceptions changing due to both art & science. Helen Scales' first book was on seahorses, & here it’s her first image. 🎨 Hashime Murayama, 1920 #IconicFishes #seahorse #NewBook […] [Original post on ecoevo.social]

Book cover. The title block “Ocean Art, Helen Scales” is surrounded by sea squirts (ascidians) from Ernst Haeckel, Kunstformen der Natur, 1904.

Six sea horses in the sea, some free-swimming in different attitudes and angles, and two with tails curled around seagrass or algae. Colour line block after H. Murayama, Wellcome Collection.

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AquaClaire @aquaclaire.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/05/2026

What is peat? How does it burn? Why are we normalising “haze season”? How do we feel? Can we express it? Stimulating questions in ‘Echoes of Climate’: drive.google.com/file/d/1t2SkK1oI9N… #RhythmInBronze #EcoArt #NewMusic […] [Original post on ecoevo.social]

Cover of the Project Booklet for ‘Echoes of Climate’, Wed 20 May 2026 at the Rhythm in Bronze Studio in Malaysia. Presented by Rhythm in Bronze and the University of York, with support from Yayasan Hasanah, Universiti Malaya, and the London School of Economics and Political Science. The image shows a gamelan orchestra and the wave of a sound pulse amid swirling smoke superimposed on a map of Southeast Asia.

Infographic with the title ‘Peatlands: The Invisible Fire Crisis’, by Dr Thomas Smith, Associate Professor of Environmental Geography at the LSE.
(1) Carbon store: peatlands cover 3% of global land area but store 33% of global soil carbon.
(2) Peat fires cause 5% of global emissions: roughly 2 billion tonnes of CO2 every year.
(3) Peat swamp forests are 90% water. When drained for plantations, the land becomes dangerously flammable during dry seasons.
(4) Fires smolder invisibly, deep underground. Unlike surface fires, peat fires are difficult to detect and extremely hard to extinguish.
(5) Haze is the new “normal” season. Annual smoke-filled skies have become a routine part of life for younger generations.
(6) Toxic smoke impacts millions of lives. Haze triggers respiratory problems and disrupts health, education and travel across Southeast Asia.

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AquaClaire @aquaclaire.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/05/2026

"Maerl beds in Jersey’s waters can host up to 173 species within a single square metre, making them among the most biodiverse habitats in Europe." More on the #MarineProtectedArea , with this infographic. 🧵 2/ […] [Original post on ecoevo.social]

The infographic has images of different fish, crabs, oysters, scallops; faraway, nearby, and in the Marine Protected Area. The text says:

Marine protection in Jersey benefits fisheries.
More scallops, more catches for fishers.

6.5% of the Islands waters were covered when Jersey's MPAs were designated in 2017. (This will increase to 21.7% in September 2026.)

Before settling, baby king scallops are thought to travel/spread 50km on average.
Habitats have more structural complexity, supporting larger numbers of juvenile fish and shellfish.
Fishermen benefit. Spillover. Populations recover.
56 sq km of maerl beds.
72% more scallops inside MPA compared to outside.

3000+ species can be found in Jersey's waters:
25% more species in MPAs compared to outside.
160 sq km of protected seabed from bottom-trawling has driven all this recovery.

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AquaClaire @aquaclaire.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/02/2026

Seahorse in Chichester? I love this artwork, & the wide range of creative collabororators in 'Songs of the Solent'. In solentseascape.com/songs-from-the-s… each place is a clickable link to its song. 🧵 1/3 […] [Original post on ecoevo.social]

Linocut map of the Solent, with places of interest to the Solent Seascape Project: the Isle of Wight, Spinnaker Tower in Portsmouth, Hayling Island, Selsey Bill, and the saltmarshes of Chichester. The edges of the map are a seascape of their own, with waves and a sea monster, and a guitarist and cat in a boat with sail marked RW 2025. Top left we see sun, stormclouds, wind, rain, & seabirds - so much beauty in that small corner! Artwork by Angela Harding, to accompany songs by Richard Walters.

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AquaClaire @aquaclaire.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/01/2026

Morning coffee today at VCR Ritchie in Kuala Lumpur. Is your barista Inspired by Iconic Fishes? Is the proprietor dreaming of them? See the Inspiration Kit at iconicfishes.art & join the movement! #IconicFishes #seahorse #CoffeeArt #OceanArt #CafeCulture #cafe #Malaysia

Cat sleeping peacefully on prime table in busy cafe

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AquaClaire @aquaclaire.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/01/2026

The title of this work is ‘Laut Adalah Kehidupan’: The Sea is Life. We should treasure that life – and ours may depend on it. 🧵 11/n #water #stewardship #StBenetsCam #OceanArt #PangrokSulap #LautAdalahKehidupan #sealife

Black and white woodcut print, the whole work entitled Laut Adalah Kehidupan (The Sea is Life). We look up from the seabed towards boats on the surface, through shafts of sunlight which illuminate many diverse living beings and a profusion of descending garbage. The overall work is beautiful, but the juxtaposition is pointed.

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AquaClaire @aquaclaire.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/01/2026

Mankind has transformed the oceans in less than one human lifetime. 🧵 10/n #woodcut #printmaking #sealife #pollution #MarineLife #MarineConservation

Two fish look at a lidded takeaway cup with straw, a lunch box, bottles, bags, dive-mask and flipper, a lightbulb...

A ray and an octopus mingle with scaffolding, sardine and cola cans, an old boot...

A swordfish appears startled and a dolphin looks out at us with mouth agape as they swim amid bags, bottles, bottletops, a cigarette-lighter…

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AquaClaire @aquaclaire.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/01/2026

The earlier work highlights the diversity of both sealife and manmade pollution. 🧵 9/n #PangrokSulap #LautAdalahKehidupan #IconicFishes #pufferfish #seahorse #seal

A bewhiskered seal looks out at us from a detail of the print, the fish known as a Moorish idol swims down from above, and the nose and teeth of a giant shark loom in from the right. Meanwhile debris rains down from above - plastic bags, bottles, a jerrycan, possibly a scubatank. The junk is comparable in magnitude to the sealife.

A pufferfish and two seahorses swim above a discarded car tyre, amid cotton swabs, bottles, cans, a toothbrush...

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AquaClaire @aquaclaire.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/11/2025

Are you inspired to illustrate the other #IconicFishes? Or to highlight current depictions? Anyone can participate in the new arts movement #InspiredByIconicFishes |https://www.iconicfishes.art/participate To know them is to treasure them. Please help us to […] [Original post on ecoevo.social]

Poster “Inspired by Iconic Fishes” depicting the various species.
“Calling on artists, makers, and dreamers of all ages around the world to join an arts movement inspired by #IconicFishes.
Start by enjoying our inspiration kit on www.iconicfishes.art
Inspired to make new art? Spotted our iconic fishes in existing art?
Share your creation or sighting on social media platforms, tag @IconicFishes with #IconicFishes, or email us at iconicfishes@projectseahorse.org”

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AquaClaire @aquaclaire.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/11/2025

… and how the male seahorses give birth. On p.8 of the Inspiration Kit, you’ll find video of the daily dance, & the outcome: www.canva.com/design/DAGnYP049ps/OC… 🧵 7/ #MalePregnancy #BabyAnimal #seahorse #IconicFishes #AmmiLeong

The main text says: “Two weeks later, Wei Wei gave birth to over 100 little ponies. Wei Wei, Wan Wan and their little sea ponies lived happily together.” Explanatory text adds: “The male seahorse would roll its tail tightly on the seagrass blade. Baby seahorses are usually released from the male seahorse’s pouch at night or before dawn. Finally, countless little seahorses will be ejected from its pouch like a fire extinguisher.” The painting shows the two adult seahorses watching the many tiny babies emerge.

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AquaClaire @aquaclaire.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/11/2025

The book shows us how they dance… On p.8 of the Inspiration Kit, you’ll find video: www.canva.com/design/DAGnYP049ps/OC… 🧵 6/ #DailyRoutine #dancing #seahorse #IconicFishes #AmmiLeong

The main text says: “Every morning Wan Wan, a very close friend of Wei Wei, would meet Wei Wei for a dance above the seagrass blades.” Explanatory text adds: “A dance is a mating process. When mating, the two seahorse tails will be intertwined and the colour will change to attract each other. Like a ballet dancer, the male seahorse slowly rotates in the water towards the female seahorse, sometimes rolling its tail, and sometimes letting it stand upright; a ‘love dance’ can last for hours.” The painting shows the happy couple in four stages of the dance.

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AquaClaire @aquaclaire.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/11/2025

Meanwhile, Ammi worked with Dr Adam Lim of #SaveOurSeahorses in #Malaysia to answer a question important to all Malaysians, #WhatTheyEat. & while Swiftly Slurping… p.10 of the Inspiration Kit also tells us How They Sound […] [Original post on ecoevo.social]

The text says: “Seahorses are carnivorous fishes. They feed only on animals that can fit into its snout such as the zooplanktons, worms, small fishes and shrimps. Everyday, Wei Wei would hunt for food using his straw-like snout. He would sneak up on his prey and suck them up real fast to eat them, catching them by surprise.” The left-hand painting shows the eye of the seahorse on a tiny shrimp. The right shows an action sequence of three images as the shrimp is sucked into the seahorse’s snout.

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AquaClaire @aquaclaire.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/11/2025

The #razorfish #pipefish & #seahorse are all related – yet so different from each other, & from us! See the call by @iconicfishes for a global arts movement #InspiredByIconicFishes, & the glorious images / videos / details in the Inspiration Kit at […] [Original post on ecoevo.social]

The text says: "Seahorses lead a glorious orchestra of musical marine life: Pipefish, Ghost pipefish, Trumpetfish, Cornetfish/Flutemouth, and Bellowsfish, with the Seadragon as the closing act, the elegant dancer and showstopper. Along with evoking harmony and intrigue through their names, these quirky fishes tell wondrous stories of camouflage and male pregnancy, mate fidelity and ambush predation, stealthy swimming and meditative stillness. These are the unsung heroes of our seas. Help us to amplify their stories through art and music." Photos of the different fishes are labelled "the conductor" (seahorse), “the musicians” (pipefish, trumpetfish, cornetfish or flutemouth, bellowsfish), and “the showstopper” (seadragon).

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AquaClaire @aquaclaire.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/11/2025

Here Ammi introduces some of the characters who live in the seagrass, & shows us part of their home. 🧵 3/ #razorfish #pipefish #seahorse #nudibranch #seastar #seagrass #habitat #IconicFishes #AmmiLeong

This painting shows four narrow silver razorfish hanging vertically, heads down, a yellow seahorse anchoring with his tail to a blade of tape seagrass, and two bendy inquisitive pipefish. The seahorse & pipefish are eyeing each other with curiosity. On the seabed we see spoon and fern seagrass, a seaweed, the glossy shell of a marine snail, a small red nudibranch and a large knobbly red seastar. The text reads: "This is Wei Wei, the yellow spotted seahorse. He lives in this seagrass meadow with his friends."

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AquaClaire @aquaclaire.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/11/2025

Their eyes move independently like those of a chameleon... I love the notes by artist #AmmiLeong, as she prepared to illustrate 'A Seahorse Story'. Sketches, storyboard & some finished pages are on her website & reproduced here with permission […] [Original post on ecoevo.social]

Sketch of a male and female seahorse, facing each other, with notes on particular features in English & Chinese. Apart from the eyes (sketched swivelling), "long snouts used to suck up food", "prehensile tail", & "swim very poorly, rapidly fluttering a dorsal fin and using pectoral fins to steer". Coronet: "a crown-like horn or spine on its head which is distinct for each species". For the male, "slight keel" (re angle of body), & "pouch on the ventral side of the tail". "Mature females with dark spot under anal fin."

Cover of the book, with watercolour of a yellow seahorse among seagrass, with title 'A Seahorse Story' in English & Chinese.

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AquaClaire @aquaclaire.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/11/2025

The invitation to participate in the global arts movement #InspiredByIconicFishes is now available in simplified & traditional Chinese, & in French: www.iconicfishes.art/resources Looking forward to more languages, & seeing more art inspired by […] [Original post on ecoevo.social]

Screenshot of webpage introducing 'Inspired by Iconic Fishes' in simplified Chinese: a call to artists, makers and dreamers to join us, and explaining why. Glorious images on the left include scientific illustration, a painted seadragon, metal and clay sculptures, dancers, a singer, musicians & a score...

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AquaClaire @aquaclaire.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/11/2025

Tragedy & transformation; experience & insight; conversations in a fishing community. Read the Pangrok Sulap artists' statement: www.iconicfishes.art/s/ArtistStatem… 🧵 8/n #PangrokSulap #OceanArt #ArtAndNature

Carving the woodcut: the hands of one of the artists are seen at the top, working on the section with a skindiver releasing cyanide. The foreground is filled with a dying fish.

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AquaClaire @aquaclaire.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/11/2025

This thought-provoking art raises weighty issues, but with joy in the making, the details, & the conversations that ensue. It's disturbing, but so beautiful! What other aspects do you see? 🧵 7/n #RatapanLautan #PangrokSulap #StBenetsCam #MarineLife #seabed #BottomTrawling #OceanArt #SaveOurSeas

Black and white woodcut print, the whole work entitled Ratapan Lautan (The Lament of the Sea). Swirling waters remind many viewers of Van Gogh, and pull together all the details described in the thread above.

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AquaClaire @aquaclaire.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/11/2025

Rapacious extraction & heedless coastal construction leave a lone traditional fisherman casting his line in an empty sea. Artwork by #PangrokSulap from #Malaysia. See it at the oldest building in #Cambridge, #StBenetsCam. 🧵 6/n

In this detail of the print, the fisherman in his boat is seen from below, amid swirling waters which emphasize his small size and fragility. We also see a skyscraper city, and a giant net being pulled up by a crane.

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AquaClaire @aquaclaire.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/11/2025

These are dwarfed by the huge scale of new threats. Life amid the 3-dimensionality of a thriving habitat contrasts with the flattened desert & devastated seabed after the passage of a bottom trawl. 🧵 5/n #BottomTrawling #pipefish #seahorse #seadragon #BellowsFish #IconicFishes

Seahorse, pipefish, bellowsfish and a dolphin swim in a varied seascape amid diverse corals and sponges.

In the wake of the bottom trawl, the turbulent water is swirling with dead fish and broken fragments of coral, while the seabed has been scraped and flattened.

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AquaClaire @aquaclaire.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/11/2025

Local scourges are depicted: fish bombing & cyanide fishing both result in an immediate cash while destroying ecosystems & livelihoods for the future. 🧵 4/n

Black & white woodcut print. An underwater scene, with a bomb exploding, a dead crab, a huge & disturbing dismembered claw.

Another underwater scene, in which the current disperses cyanide from a skin diver's bottle, the eyes of a fish are white as it dies from the poison, and similar eyes in the seabed hint at the scale of mortality.

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AquaClaire @aquaclaire.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/11/2025

The dolphins invite you to look closely at the beauty and diversity of the ocean, and the current impact of man. On show now in the heart of Cambridge, 'Reflecting on the Sea': details above. Open invitation to a reception on Thurs 25 Nov, 5-6pm […] [Original post on ecoevo.social]

Black-and-white artwork - a woodcut print. A large dolphin looks directly at the viewer, as two smaller dolphins swim happily above the vibrant reef below. What does the dolphin wish to tell us?

In another detail of the same artwork, a group of terrified fish are about to be caught in an enormous trawl net, into which all life is disappearing.

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AquaClaire @aquaclaire.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/11/2025

Two powerful artworks by Pangrok Sulap are now on display in the beautiful space of St Bene't's in Cambridge: www.stbenetschurch.org/laut 🧵 1/2 #sealife #StBenetsCam #BottomTrawling #ocean #pollution #MarineConservation #PangrokSulap #IconicFishes #Cambridge

Two large modern artworks hang in an ancient church, with arched Gothic windows behind and a font in the foreground. The artworks are black-and-white prints on canvas, both celebrating the beauty and diversity of sealife along with the manmade threats - of plastic and other pollution in the first; various forms of seabed destruction in the second. Atmospheric black and white photo, taken by the vicar after a harrowing day and a midnight hang: peace reigns.

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AquaClaire @aquaclaire.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2025

Acrylic paintings by Ammi Leong exhibited this month in "1000 tiny artworks" at #HinBusDepot in Penang. #IconicFishes #seahorse #AmmiLeong

Painting of a pygmy seahorse with bobbly red texture blending into the bobbly red coral to which it clings with curled tail.

Painting of a yellow male seahorse giving birth, attended by a floating child in white shift or nightgown, the two staring into each other's eyes.

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