Nudibranchs (also known less elegantly as sea slugs) are the unsung beauties of the ocean… over 3,000 species known so far have a wide variety of colors, shapes, and survival techniques. It’s incredible that plenty of people don’t even know they exist.
This shirt helps change all that.
Well, this shirt as well as the 10-foot-long mechanical rideable Hopkins Rose nudibranch at Cannonball Arts in Seattle.
Toxic Beauty is the name I gave to my creation because its lovely pink color is a signifier of danger and death to other sea creatures, even though the hue often reads as innocent and even girly in human cultures. This tiny creature measures only one inch long, it’s found along the California coast (although it’s been sighted further and further north), it sports toxic secretions and stinging cells, and it gets its color and poison from its food source, a coral-like pink invertebrate called a bryozoan.
I chose this flamboyantly colorful and exuberantly weird creature for Cannonball Arts for five reasons:
1. it embodies the way beauty is open to interpretation: what is a warning to one audience can be a seduction to another
2. it exemplifies the metaphor “you are what you eat” both literally and figuratively: what you take in is what you have available to put out into the world, for good or bad
3. it serves as an indicator species for climate change as it generationally works it way North
4. its form, color, and motion translate well into a larger-than-life interactive sculpture
5. it celebrates paying attention to obscure yet amazing natural wonders
**Please note you won’t be surprised by shipping costs, since shipping is included for FREE!**
Swipe left for a sizing chart.
• 50% cotton and 50% polyester
• Fabric weight: 5.5 oz./yd² (186 g/m²)
• Yarn diameter: 20 singles
• Moisture-management fabric
• Modern classic fit
• Classic-width ribbed collar
• Neck and shoulder taping
• Blank product sourced from Nicaragua
Nudibranchs (also known less elegantly as sea slugs) are the unsung beauties of the ocean… over 3,000 species known so far have a wide variety of colors, shapes, and survival techniques. It’s incredible that plenty of people don’t even know they exist.
This shirt helps change all that.
Well, this shirt as well as the 10-foot-long mechanical rideable Hopkins Rose nudibranch at Cannonball Arts in Seattle.
Toxic Beauty is the name I gave to my creation because its lovely pink color is a signifier of danger and death to other sea creatures, even though the hue often reads as innocent and even girly in human cultures. This tiny creature measures only one inch long, it’s found along the California coast (although it’s been sighted further and further north), it sports toxic secretions and stinging cells, and it gets its color and poison from its food source, a coral-like pink invertebrate called a bryozoan.
I chose this flamboyantly colorful and exuberantly weird creature for Cannonball Arts for five reasons:
1. it embodies the way beauty is open to interpretation: what is a warning to one audience can be a seduction to another
2. it exemplifies the metaphor “you are what you eat” both literally and figuratively: what you take in is what you have available to put out into the world, for good or bad
3. it serves as an indicator species for climate change as it generationally works it way North
4. its form, color, and motion translate well into a larger-than-life interactive sculpture
5. it celebrates paying attention to obscure yet amazing natural wonders
**Please note you won’t be surprised by shipping costs, since shipping is included for FREE!**
Swipe left for a sizing chart.
• 50% cotton and 50% polyester
• Fabric weight: 5.5 oz./yd² (186 g/m²)
• Yarn diameter: 20 singles
• Moisture-management fabric
• Modern classic fit
• Classic-width ribbed collar
• Neck and shoulder taping
• Blank product sourced from Nicaragua
