Catalogued as Ichthyophyta embryonica, this imagined specimen reinterprets a Blaschka-style glass model at the moment its subject seems to shift from representation into life. A fictional littoral plant holds flamboyant cuttlefish embryos in translucent pods; as the containment fluid appears to rehydrate the illustration, one embryo breaks through the drawing into the water, while a living cuttlefish rests in the shadow of its glass counterpart.

 Within The Museum of Lost Evidence, this piece turns toward emergence rather than loss. It collapses archival time—past depiction, present specimen, and future possibility—into a single frame, suggesting that evidence can move between states rather than remain fixed. By blurring taxonomy and animation, the work reflects on how specimens—biological or artistic—carry memory across boundaries of preservation and transformation.

The full context of the series begins with The Broken Compass.