- Place
- two low alabaster landing terraces facing one another across a clear channel with one central opal-and-gold footbridge
- Affordance
- the central rail creates a visible pause point and paired posts create a sheltered lee
- Camera
- side-on architectural view preserving both terraces and bridge
- 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
- paused naturally on the central rail between the two terraces
- Night behaviour
- roosting in the lee of the paired posts beside the same rail
- 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