"Ribboned Seadragon" - Land Identifies Sea Collection

This piece is 4.375" by 5.375" and is the 18th/ last piece in this collection. It was made using watercolor pencils. Remember, this is a real creature, despite it's strange common name. And disclaimer, this creature isn't a true seadragon, as its name suggests.

I find it very comedic how humans name creatures. For instance, the German name for turtle is "shielded toad" which, while accurate, shows how their language puts together many words to become something new. But, Germans aren't the only ones to do this, as is exemplified by this piece. In fact, a lot of sea creatures are named after things on land, but sometimes, one does question how they begin to associate these creatures with this land stuff. And then I begin to think, what if evolution was reversed, and sea creatures named land creatures after themselves. Would a spider be a land octopus? Who knows. That is why I juxtapose the sea creature and their respective land creature, to perhaps see how similar they both really are.