Thomson’s work seems informed by the belief that we all too often get hooked by ‘official fish stories’ that cut us off from the facts of our own experience and our propensity to contemplate the levels of mystery that actually characterize the reality that is our natural habitat. Calendar enlightens us, for instance, to the rather simple fact that fish (not unlike fire, water, earth, and air), have been around a lot longer than we have. Right? And, once we’re hooked on that one, a whole pack of other ideas and questions seem to swim into our consciousness. For some, questions like ‘how long have we been around?, and in what form?’, subtly become a focus of our musings. For others, meditations upon the actual fish bowls serve as a reminder that the fish are in evolutionary terms, our ancestors...Janis Runge