A lobster and coral reef sculpture on a shiny US navy box that I found at a flea market.

The lobster have the peculiarity of having never-aging cells.
For the science aspect, during cell division, DNA gets damaged, to prevent that, DNA has so called telomeres at the end which take the hit. When those telomeres are done, cells stop dividing and we age. But the lobsters have a nifty process called telomerase that heals telomeres during cell division.

Theoretically they could live forever, however each time they molt, their new shell gets bigger and thicker and eventually they can’t crack their shell open anymore.
Their life expectancy is about 140 years, so still quite impressive!

I wanted to highlight that in my sculpture as well, that’s why I went with this rainbow dot pattern on the shell, to allude to those never-aging cells