Description
Wavy Quavers (2020)
By Elizabeth Solich, oil on canvas, recycled materials.
Width: 50.80 cm Height: 40.60 cm
If the start of jellyfish life wasn’t extraordinary enough, its death is where things get really exciting. When the medusa the immortal jellyfish dies, it sinks to the ocean floor and begins to decay. Amazingly, its cells then reaggregate, not into a new medusa, but into polyps, and from these polyps emerge new jellyfish. The jellyfish has skipped to an earlier life stage to begin again. Its cells change from type to another, producing a completely different body plan (cellular transdifferentiation). Even a cat has nine lives, so what chances of winning lottery for an extra life for blenny fish ??
