In kind of a throwback to an old post on Glassbox Design, and adding to one of his more recent posts “The Remarkable Pico Reef of Marcelo“, I happened across some of Marcelo’s marine inspired artwork on flickr. His ‘Marcelocean’ collection of paper sculptures bear such titles as “Basslets & Soft Coral”, “Dascyllus aruanus & acropora” & “Zebrasoma xanthurus”, so if you can guess what the subjects might be… The depth of the sculptures is awesome, and the details, especially with respect to the anatomy of the animals, I find impressive as well.
Marcelo’s (or Tatsuyoshi Ishii, his Japanese pen name) Marcelocean collection, as well as his other artwork, can be found on his homepage and his flickr page. And if you’re so inclined, it seems you can even purchase the artwork.
- Clownfish & Sea Anemone
2006, Paper sculpture
Height 15cm * Width 40cm
- Basslets & Soft Coral
2006 Paper sculpture
Height 20cm * Width 20cm
Elos E-lite LED 
Ecotech Vortech MP20 
Elos Skimmer 
Eheim Return 
GFO Reactor 
Heater 1 
Heater 2 
Litermeter III 
Email Alarm 
John Stires
1 year ago
This artwork is just fabulous. I’ll need to keep following him, he does some beautiful things. Thanks for the tip!
admin
1 year ago
I thought it really cool as well, although the words ‘carpal tunnel’ came to mind, imagining all the small cuts he made!
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