Nick Mayer
Paper Nautilus

Self-Initiated

Featured in Exhibition

Private sale. 

Single image entry

When I was 21 I lived in a van and drove to Baja Mexico.  I found this shell on the beach and kept it for 2 decades.  Now at a totally different stage in my life I took another look at the shell, researched it and was shocked to discover that it was a pelagic octopus' egg case.  The octopus secretes the shell, deposits her eggs in it then sends it floating away.  This was the inspiration for the painting.

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