Seven sardines rendered in rich cobalt blue swim horizontally across a cream background, their bodies filled with delicate linear patterns and scales, arranged in a stacked composition that echoes the rhythm of the checkerboard grid above them. The work combines bold graphic illustration with intricate line work, creating a balance between the ordered geometry of the checkered pattern and the organic flowing forms of the fish. Bound with 52 pages of 70lb paper, lined or unlined, behind an anti-scuff matte cover with wraparound artwork, made to order. Notes and sketches kept behind an independent artist's work, not a plain composition cover.