Gallagher made this image of an undersea creature by scratching and carving into thick paper. She has likened the process to the carving of scrimshaw, a practice dating from the nineteenth century in which whalers and other sailors would scratch intricate pictures and patterns into the bones, teeth, and tusks of marine animals.
Gallery label from Wunderkammer: A Century of Curiosities, July 30–November 10, 2008.