National Aquarium

Transformation of a Vampire Squid is a painted mural following a vampire squid through three stages, from a deep red webbed form to a pale, inverted one, across a dark blue ground.

Festival goers painted it with me, filling in the shapes paint-by-number style over the course of the weekend.

Children and adults filling in the outlined shapes along the mural wall

A girl in a blue bandana painting one of the shapes, brush in hand

A group working on the pale, inverted form at the right end of the wall

The finished squid, red and yellow at one end and pale grey at the other, on dark blue