- Place
- a complete chain of connected wetland chambers beneath iridescent glass roofs and moonstone arches
- Affordance
- open internal arches join every pool while an enclosed central reed bed provides shelter
- Camera
- wide interior view through the first threshold across every chamber
- Living subject
- a photorealistic anatomically natural adult male emperor dragonfly at true scale, with untiled biological eyes, transparent wings and naturally dark chitin
- Day behaviour
- hunting naturally over the open central pool inside the connected chambers
- Night behaviour
- resting on an interior stem protected by the complete enclosure
- Palette
- iridescent opal, warm alabaster, champagne gold, pale mother-of-pearl and restrained honey
- Materials
- opal glass tesserae, carved alabaster, mother-of-pearl, champagne-gold smalti, clear water and living reeds