My painting has been constructed around the tension between the mimetic look of the figurative elements depicted and the (almost) abstract forms of the label. The creative process started twofold. On the one hand, it aimed to address formal questions regarding space in the two-dimensional surface of the canvas. By adding the label, the surface separates into two levels of perception – figurative and abstract. The other direction unfolded around the tension between the label and the fish as a subject matter, i. e. the tension itself has become the centre of the piece. The tension between this figurative depiction of a very familiar object in our everyday life - fish, and the list of ingredients, which include the heavy metals that we find in the seas and the fish. I hope this painting, merging from between the abstract and the figurative, between the words and the images, can offer an intriguing insight into these subject matters and bring attention to the current ecological problems.