The oeuvre of Anri Sala (b. 1974) explores the relationships between music and narrative, architecture and film, interleaving qualities of different media in both complex and intuitive ways to produce works in which one medium takes on the qualities of another.

This work takes as reference image an engraving of an eel. Sala has taken the island of Cuba and placed it on the page in approximate likeness to the engraving with which the drawing is paired. Although the shape of the individual islands and those of the fish bear no exact relation, a striking formal similarity of form and color manifests itself.