{"product_id":"red-hanging-fighting-fish-resin-sculpture-120cm","title":"Red Hanging Fighting Fish Resin Sculpture - 120cm","description":"\u003ch3\u003eDescription\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis resin sculpture is a fighting fish made to hang rather than stand. The body is short and deep with the scales cut over it in overlapping rows, and everything behind it is fin: the tail and the anal fin are drawn out into long sheets combed with parallel ridges, and the dorsal stands up in a second sheet above. The resin is a saturated translucent red throughout, deepest where the body is thickest and brightest at the fin edges.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eFins Combed Into Long Thin Sheets\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eA fin sheet that runs the length of a body is worked from the ridges outward. Each ridge is a continuous line from the root to the edge and none of them may cross, so they are set out at the root first, where they are closest together, and then followed out; a ridge picked up again halfway shows as a step under a raking light. The scales are the other field. They cover a body that swells in two directions, so a row even along the back arrives wrong at the belly unless the spacing is reset wherever the curve changes, and the whole field is cut at one depth so that no scale reads as a blemish among the rest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is made to hang and it needs room to turn: over a stair well, in a double-height space, in a window, above a table where it is seen from below. Hang it where light can come through the fins, which is where the red is at its best; against a solid ceiling with light from above it reads as a dark shape. It wants a fixing into a joist rather than a plasterboard anchor, and enough line that it hangs clear of the wall and turns slowly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eColour, Fixing and Getting It Home\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe standard build is 3–4 weeks and the bespoke build 5–6. The fish is made in this red, in a green or in an amber, or as a colourless body, and a solid opaque fish is made where it should read against the light as a shape only. Fin spread is open, with the sheets drawn in towards the body for a calmer outline, and the fish can be mounted on a stand where hanging is not wanted. It can be made at other lengths, up to one that fills a stair well. It arrives in a fitted crate with each fin sheet packed against a shaped former and the lines coiled separately; take the weight under the body and never by a fin. Our main studios are in the UK (Birmingham) and Dubai, with additional global workshops.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA long red fish suspended from the ceiling belongs with our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/animal-sculptures\"\u003eanimal sculptures\u003c\/a\u003e; fins drawn into long combed sheets lead to our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/organic-sculptures\"\u003eorganic sculptures\u003c\/a\u003e, and red at its brightest at the fin edges 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\u003e66cm\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWidth\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e120cm\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eDepth\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e50cm\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eMaterial\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eTranslucent Red 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":54020754964827,"sku":"R305","price":3915.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0869\/3383\/2027\/files\/R305.jpg?v=1791315972","url":"https:\/\/giant-sculptures.com\/products\/red-hanging-fighting-fish-resin-sculpture-120cm","provider":"Giant Sculptures","version":"1.0","type":"link"}