This bust depicts a bald figure with its eyes closed, its features transformed by a series of fish-like interventions. A fish tail protrudes from the open mouth, while one ear is sculpted in the form of a fish. Small flounders rest across the figure’s shoulder and neck, and tiny silver flounders are positioned on the eyelids, emphasizing the closed gaze and imbuing the sculpture with a quiet, tidal stillness.

Modelled in wild balata rubber—formed underwater, hollow, and with a thin, flexible skin—the work carries the material’s distinctive sense of immediacy and organic responsiveness. The combination of human and marine forms locates the figure within the artist’s ongoing interest in hybrid beings, mythic motifs, and the subtle collapse between the terrestrial and the aquatic.

The bust form itself—so deeply rooted in classical and modern sculptural traditions—is intentionally invoked here. Its silhouette recalls the work of Germaine Richier, César Baldaccini, and Alberto Giacometti, artists who expanded or distorted the human figure while still engaging the conventions of the bust. By adopting this historically conservative format, the work juxtaposes tradition with transformation, grounding its more fantastical elements in a lineage of sculptural experimentation.