Archival pigment transfer, acrylic polymer, ossein gelatin, white marble dust, on Baltic birch panel

Scott Groeniger is a multimedia artist working in video, sound design, printmaking, drawing, and photography. Groeniger is a Professor of Digital Imaging and Chair of Print media at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

Shin torrenticola haemanucleata

Shin (Genus): This prefix has a triple meaning: The New, The True, and The Divine (God). It suggests this morphed insect belongs to the exact same evolutionary family tree as the giant monster Shin Godzilla.

torrenticola (Species): This is standard biology. It literally translates to "torrent-dwelling," indicating that this insect naturally lives on sheer rock faces inside heavy, crashing waterfall torrents.

haemanucleata (Subspecies): A custom scientific word meaning "nuclear-blooded." It directly relates to the unique physical legend of Shin Godzilla—a creature in constant agony whose internal nuclear reactor forces its blood to boil, rupture, and bleed outward through its skin.

(Yashiori morph) (Variant): Named after Operation Yashiori, the final military plan that froze Shin Godzilla. It suggests this (now fictional) insect is a mutated survivor that sprouted from the terrifying humanoid forms on the tip of Godzilla's tail at the exact moment he was frozen solid.