Strange Original Reed
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Description for blind and low-vision visitors
A horizontal painting centered on a large fish or sea creature whose orange and blue body curves across the middle, its wide toothed mouth open at the left to engulf a stream of small colorful fish. The body is patterned with rows of round shell-like motifs in pastel colors and a spiral marks its head. A long orange tail with a flower-tipped plume sweeps up to the upper right. Across the top, a row of long-beaked birds with red, blue and orange wings dive toward the fish against a deep yellow sky. The lower half is a pale blue and white water field scattered with small red, green and yellow fish swimming toward the lower left. A signature in dark letters appears at the lower right.
