Leeyanus

Size: 28x5x113 cm
11x2x44 in
Weight: 8 kg / 18 lb
Year: 2017
Materials and technique: steel; welding

Denis Kulikov's leeches, made of iron on a scale of 1\5 to human height, are the inhabitants of the aquatic element perfected in the course of alternative evolution. Leeches feed on the blood of vertebrates, mollusks, worms, but there are also predator species that can swallow their prey whole. This is the species the sculptor describes in his work, and its victims are not mosquitoes or worms at all; "Janus" is a real underwater vampire