Young fisherman Travis Toyama found a rare sea creature near the Makapuu tide pools in December. Now he’s taken it to an internationally known Gyotaku artist to preserve it on a wearable canvas.
Toyama saw the fish floating in the water on December 23. What he mistook for an eel, turned out to be a slender horned Armored Gunard. They are found in deep tropical waters around the world.
Wanting to remember it long after its spiny remains decay, Toyama asked artist Naoki Hayashi to print it to a T-shirt.
"What I’m trying to do is not really duplicate it, as what a photograph would show – I’m trying to capture the character (of it) so the persno can relate to the day he caught it or found it, and then to live with it…. It’s the keepsake of the living experience. I’m not trying to make a photograph," Hayashi said.
The creature’s image was put on two T-shirts and an actual canvas frame. Travis says he also wants to find a taxidermist to preserve the fish and have it posted to his bedroom wall.
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