- Place
- an emerald sea terrace above a vast dark ocean with tidal mosaic pools and a distant city
- Affordance
- the tidal edge supports foraging while the balustrade provides a night roost
- Camera
- wide coastal panorama
- Living subject
- an anatomically natural peacock
- Day behaviour
- foraging naturally beside a shallow tidal pool
- Night behaviour
- roosting on the sea-facing balustrade
- Palette
- luxury emerald, verdigris, ivory, turquoise glass and pale gold
- Materials
- emerald and turquoise glass tesserae, ivory limestone, white marble, gold smalti and living trees