A striking red steel sculpture from the CREATURES series presents a stylized fish or dragon form rendered in bold, saturated oil enamel paint. The sheet metal is shaped into a flattened, elongated silhouette with geometric fins and a squared mouth, creating a totemic profile that reads equally as modernist abstraction and whimsical creature. The vivid crimson finish, applied with oil enamel on steel, creates a uniform, high gloss surface that catches light across the planar surfaces. The work exemplifies Van Earl's approach to animal form: reductive, graphic, and monumentally playful, balancing primitive totemic impulses with contemporary sculptural minimalism.