Resin-cast, laser-cut stainless-steel aquatic creatures, suspended on filament so they appear to swim through the gallery. It is a comment on hydropolitics — the precarious future of water, which, as fresh water grows scarce, becomes an increasing source of global conflict.

All aquatic life has been affected by high concentrations of pollutants — heavy metals and chemicals — in rivers, streams and oceans. The creatures, armed with implements used as weapons in human conflict, have evolved out of the toxic sludge to defend their waning territory: both tragic and absurd, drawn from the ‘sublime of delightful horror’ — the simultaneous aversion and attraction of the terrifying.

Shown over its own felted ‘seabed’ at the Oliewenhuis Museum, Bloemfontein (2015) — a companion to, but distinct from, the seabed of Litany. Each creature was cast from a microcrystalline-wax original into a silicone mould, with fibreglass supports.