GALLERY  WHISTLE THUMBNAILS Artist's comment: Often these whistles are named by some distinguishing characteristic of one or both of the eyes. In this case, the right eye is a tone-hole with little carved spot decorations around it. The whistle acoustics are plainly seen in this view. The top of the spout, inside rim of the eye, and parts of the acoustics were detailed in a light grey color. --mm

WHISTLE #047: CALVIN Calvin is one of these "body decoration" folks. He hung around for a while with this marlin from the wrong side of the abyss. Over sharing a few too many Purple Plankton Pureés with the marlin, Calvin woke up the next morning with some detailed piercings around his right eye. Calvin doesn't remember much, and he never saw the marlin again. His mother was aghast, his father was stoic, and his little brother thought it was cool. After a while, people seemed to get used to it.