This surreal ichthys becomes a vessel for inhabited memory: the upper fish glints with tessellated scales that read like protective armor, while its eye—an embedded mosaic—suggests perception assembled from fragments of lived experience. Below, a second fish is rendered as an entire village, rooftops and facades interlocking into a dense, precarious ecology, turning the creature into both carrier and cartography of community. Suspended against a pale, textured field, the forms drift between water and air, proposing migration not as escape but as the continual rebuilding of home within the body.