He has created a beautiful mural with an aura of tranquility, but when you look at it closely, you are introduced to its aggressive personality. When you get a little more closer, you start to notice fishhooks and nails, making this mural a fascinating piece of art.
Capote has brought together 500,000 fishhooks and transformed them into a 26 ft wide work-of-art. It took him 6 months and 30 assistants to create this artwork. When asked 'why fishhooks?', here's what he had to say, "I decided to use fishhooks in this series because I wanted to create a tension between beauty and seduction and danger and entrapment."
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