{"product_id":"amber-fighting-fish-cast-resin-sculpture-110cm","title":"Amber Fighting Fish Cast Resin Sculpture - 110cm","description":"\u003ch3\u003eDescription\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe fish itself is small on this cast resin sculpture and sits at one end of the piece, its head and scaled body gilded. Everything else is fin: the dorsal, the tail and the anal fin run together into a single wide sheet with a torn outer edge and a few open holes, standing well above the body and reaching far back behind it. The fins run from a deep amber at the base through a clear yellow-green, and their ragged tips are gilded. The surface is left rough and faceted like broken ice rather than polished, and the whole thing rises from a small foot of the same material.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eFins That Are One Sheet, Not Several\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaking several fins read as one sheet is a decision that has to hold everywhere at once. Where two fins would ordinarily separate, the material carries straight through, so the joins have to be cut away rather than modelled, and the sheet then has to keep an even thickness across a span that is mostly unsupported. It is worked from the outer edge inward, because the edge is what the eye reads and the depth behind it can be adjusted afterwards. The rough surface is the other half of the job. It is not a texture applied at the end but the finish the material is taken to and then left at, which means every part of it has to be brought to the same coarseness in one pass; a patch worked smooth cannot be roughened back to match.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis wants a surface it can overhang. It runs a long way from nose to fin tip, so it needs a long clear run where the tail can carry on past the body, which means a sideboard or a shelf rather than a lamp table. Set it with the fins reading across the room rather than into it. Light through the piece is what the amber is for: a window behind it puts the grade inside the amber instead of over it, and a spot from above finds only the rough surface and stops there.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eColour, Surface and What Arrives\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive it 3–4 weeks as a standard piece, or 5–6 weeks as a bespoke commission. Colour can follow this amber or shift to green or smoke, or be dropped for a clear, ungraded body; the gilding on the fish and the fin tips can be left off, and the rough surface can give way to a smooth polish. Fin spread is open: the sheet can be brought closer to the body for a quieter fish or opened further for a wall piece. Other sizes can be made to order. It arrives in a fitted crate with the fin sheet packed against a shaped former and nothing to assemble; take the weight under the body and never by the fin. Our main studios are in the UK (Birmingham) and Dubai, with additional global workshops.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA gilded fighting fish trailing a wide sheet of fin belongs with our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/animal-sculptures\"\u003eanimal sculptures\u003c\/a\u003e; a torn edge like broken ice leads to our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/organic-sculptures\"\u003eorganic sculptures\u003c\/a\u003e, and amber grading into yellow-green joins our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/resin-sculptures\"\u003eresin sculptures\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eSpecification\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ctable class=\"spec_table\"\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHeight\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e78cm\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWidth\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e110.5cm\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eDepth\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e40cm\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eMaterial\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eGraded Amber Cast Resin\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Giant Sculptures","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54020752834907,"sku":"R244","price":4185.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0869\/3383\/2027\/files\/R244.jpg?v=1791313418","url":"https:\/\/giant-sculptures.com\/products\/amber-fighting-fish-cast-resin-sculpture-110cm","provider":"Giant Sculptures","version":"1.0","type":"link"}