Japanese artist Gaku (@gaku_carving) has been impressing many lately with their beautiful works made using the craft of Thai fruit carving. Gaku usually takes their knife to fruit to create fascinating and ornate carvings, but recently wowed many with an epic sculpture of a falcon made out of broccoli.

Gaku has once again turned to broccoli as their palette, this time carving a green masterpiece that looks like it leaped right out of the ocean!

According to Gaku, this intricately carved fish sculpture took three hours to make. A key point was fine-shaping the typically fuzzy and bristly nature of broccoli buds into something smoother, particularly around the tail. The intact portion doubles as both an epic and imposing tail and also a visual effect of the fish creating a huge splash of water as it springs from the sea.

For more amazing fruit and vegetable carvings, be sure to follow Gaku on Twitter!