2/ final print 'Fish'

• This print is primarily inspired by the raining fish in Murakami's novel "Kafka on the shore", but also the prominence of fish as a motif within his work. 
• I decided to adopt quite an abstract approach to this motif by only giving the suggestion of fish within the image.
• I did this by using the simple silhouettes fish heads and textures of waves and scales all made through monoprint - which I think works quite well and is far more interesting to me than using a simple drawing of an actual fish. 
• I feel this also helps to emphasise the feeling of otherworldliness I wanted to create throughout all five of my prints. 
• I really like the simple structural nature of this images composition, broken up by the fish heads moving up across the image leading the viewers eye across the page and referring to this idea of 'raining fish'. 
• I choose orange as the additional colour for this print in inspiration of the colour of Japanese carp, which feature in the bitmapped photograph, so as to give a subtle reference to Murakami's homeland.