Ascending Koi and Lotus

Description

A black-and-grey Japanese-style koi swimming amid stylized water and a large lotus blossom. The koi's scales are rendered with bold contrast and smooth shading to create movement down the forearm; the lotus offers soft highlights. In Japanese symbolism koi represent perseverance, ambition and good fortune, while the lotus signifies purity and rebirth. Designed as a flowing forearm piece that can extend into a sleeve.