!["Sirens (Amphibians Feeding)" contemporary figurative painting. acrylic, cotton rag, gesso on canvas. 30 in x 30 in. "Sirens (Amphibians Feeding)" contemporary figurative painting. acrylic, cotton rag, gesso on canvas. 30 in x 30 in.](https://riverson.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/amphibians_sirens.jpg)
“Sirens (Amphibians Feeding)”
contemporary figurative painting. acrylic, cotton rag, gesso on canvas. 30 in x 30 in.
“Sirens (Amphibians Feeding)” contemporary figurative painting
As a boy, I watched a Congo Eel hunting crawfish in a ditch. I also kept sirens in gallon jars where I watched them eat the earthworms I fed them. They would attack the worms by aggressive biting and spinning around violently in the same way an alligator stuns its prey.