Toad Snake Birds and Insects

A horizontal painting on a warm orange-ochre ground framed by dark green branching plants along the left and upper edges. At the center a large fish-like creature with a pale body speckled in fine multicolored dots curves through the scene, its open mouth and round eyes at the upper center. Surrounding it are many smaller creatures: a long-legged shrimp or lobster at the upper left, a smiling figure with a round face and many spindly limbs at the right, a crested bird-fish at the lower left, and assorted worms, shrimp and centipede-like forms scattered across the lower center and lower right. Below the central creature, layered green-gray mounds suggest reef or seabed, dotted with tiny anemone shapes. Fine handwritten text sits at the lower center.