An illustrated digital comic. Page one shows a dark blue gradient with a light blue border. A note above the border says: a sixgill's lovebite - H. W. Tigoteus 2023. In the center of the piece, a sixgill bluntnose shark is depicted vertically. Text on the top and bottom reads: a shark bites into a carcass.
Page two: A bird's view of an operating room in light blue colours. Three overhead lights shine down on a sixgill shark laying on the table. We can only see its fins. Three people in scrubs are in the room, two of which are in a conversation and one is handling the surgical instruments. Sideways text reads: the way I desperately hide my body.
Page three: A white sink in front of dark blue ground. Many yellow common bathroom utensils lay on top of the sink, notable two toothbrushes in a cup, a package of plasters, two undescribed vials and a syringe. Text on the side of the sink reads: stick needles & throw pills.
Page four: Underwater scene of five yellow shark eggs hanging on a strand of sea grass in the blue water. One may distinguish the little embryos already. Two of the eggs are different: They show eyeballs with lids in various stages of openness. Text reads: close my eyes on instinct.
Page five: A sixgill bluntnose shark baring its teeth, ready to put them to use, in front of the dark blue see. Text reads: when ripping out a part of myself.
Page six: A light blue person in front of yellow ground ramming their teeth into a piece of meat, crunching their entire face. Text reads: devouring. hungry & willing.
Page seven: A person in the top left corner whispers something into the room. The speech bubble is touched, tenderly and fiercely, compressed and morphed my several hands across the page. The speech bubble ends in another person saying something into the same bubble on the lower right corner. The bubble brings a stark contrast in a warm yellow to the dark blue-black of the background. The text in the bubble reads: they don't have a name for me so i stark carving one out of my flesh.
Page eight: An archeological digging site. Two people, one kneeling in front of their equipment, one standing with a walkie-talkie, ogle the bones of a sixgill bluntnose shark laying in the yellow sand. Text reads: reconstruction of one's own body.
Page nine: A human skeleon in front of a light blue background. A turbulent yellow burst of colour appears behind their persona and contrasts the blue of their bones. The text reads: nature, reinvented. A note below the border says: a sixgill's lovebite - H. W. Tigoteus 2023
creation period: may 2023 - august 2023
first appearance: "THE ART OF TRANSFORMATION" (zine, text only) by Jack D. Arnold and me