trick artist. i don t consider trick art to be my main work. i do definitely utilize illusion. your brain takes what you see on the surface of the water and makes you think that the object you are seeing is compressed. my gold fish don t have any thickness. people automatically imagine the depth and feel. perfecting this intricate illusion takes years of painstaking trial and error. there would be pieces where i had spent months to make and just as i put in the last layer, it would get destroyed. for each layer of resin, my heart is contracting little by little making sure that no air is getting in sweating while doing it. don t blink. these 100 gold fish swimming through rippled water are actually part of his 2011 exhibit called gold fish salvation in london s icm