Eel Migration

by Juliet Petrarulo

Juliet used harmonious natural placrylic colours to craft a painting that at first glance draws you in with aesthetics because of its resemblance to a luxurious marble design when really it depicts an aerial perspective of intelligent eels migrating into cleaner water because of a change in ocean chemistry. The use of eco yellow placrylic paint to depict ocean toxicity in her Eel painting is of particular interest as we can see the intelligent eel swimming through the yellow more ‘toxic’ water towards the blue hues in the painting that depict freshwater ocean