Going right back to the original posting in this thread we have a dog carved by nature. The sea at Ostia, just outside Rome, washed up this ready made fish (whale?). I think it is a species new to science. Can any latin experts come up with a suitable name? Perhaps that's one for you John. You might think that ready made art is a dream come true. But there are always doubts in the artist's mind. Which side should be visible, for example? As you can see from the pic of the, so far, unnamed fish swimming through a sea of a badly wilting Cassia corymbosa , I went for the paler side. Who knows which way he'll be swimming tomorrow? Hanging up on nylon thread as he is, he adds movement to the balcony as he bobs around in the breeze. Hope he is happy in his new home. He seems to be.