This project was born at the intersection of my interest in the coral bleaching
phenomenon and my research into the representation of sci-fi tendencies in manga and
anime. The hybrid organism I created is at once human, a woman who resembles Rilke's
Eurydice *, and a coral reef almost colorless due to the warming waters in its area. The
coexistence of species, natural to the coral reef, here extends to the human being, the
fragile human body becomes the host for a static solid and yet vulnerable life. The
interweaving and sharing of each other's properties results in an entity of a complex and
dual nature that defies either categorization within the biological world or gender
definition. A multispecies entity, sensitive to the world both within and a part of which it
exists. In Haruko Ichikawa’s manga Land of the Lustrous the creatures, similar to mine, are
called Admirabilis, and along with Jewels, they inhabit the earth after humans.