Heather Farthing
"Shipwrecked" was inspired by a Pyramid Collection painting ("Castaway") of a human girl apparently demonstrating things washed up by shipwreck to mermaids. The "look" of the mermaids is much older than the concept of the story itself, and inspired by the beautiful but terrifying deep sea fish.
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