If you take a walk around San Francisco, it won’t take long before you see a koi fish. Not a real one, of course, although the bright orange-and-white graffiti art has the fluidity of a real fish ...

Koi fish are popular in Lillian's work because she took care of them for 12 years before painting them. Typically, making one koi fish takes six to eight layers of painted resin. The first layer ...