Lowanna.

I created her face-on, mouth open in that smile that shows the whole row of teeth: on the print, only the calm face is there, on a plain background. The scene that left her with that calm didn't fit inside it. On a field day at the Neptune Islands, seventy kilometers from Port Lincoln, an adult white shark, four meters long, passed six meters from her. Neither of them moved. He looked at her and carried on his way. She came out of the water calm, without saying a word, and that night she sat on the floor of her studio and smiled to herself for ten minutes.

With Animal Kinhood I've spent years creating dressed animals, with the jobs of people who get up early and work hard. Lowanna is a lifeguard and safety trainer on the beaches of southern Australia: she pulls people out of the water and teaches them to respect the sea. This print lifts her out of her story and puts her on your wall. As an art print by Yago Partal, the matte finish doesn't glare and works anywhere: over a desk or in a hallway you pass through. If you like how it looks, there are more creatures in the rest of the collection.