sweet lips

Cut-paper collage postcard created for the Kollage Kit theme: "Water." Of the four classical elements, water is the one traditionally associated with human emotions.

On the left is a cuckoo wrasse: males of this species are blue and orange, while females are pink. Some females change color and become males. On the right is a harlequin sweetlips: the color and movement of the juvenile mimics a toxic flatworm. Both of these fishes are evidently very cuddly.