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The Crocodile Meridian Water-Glass Series
This article is about the water-glass series. For related Zimbabwean adaptations, see Backwards Through the Scrub and The Crocodile Meridian.
The Crocodile Meridian Water-Glass Series (2022–present) is a handblown drinking-glass series by Zimbabwean glassblower Tafadzwa Moyo , each vessel a spatial refraction of Leif's ten layered versions encoded through the glass's interior geometry. Named after the fictional meridian of the watering hole sequence, the series consists of 400 limited pieces hand-formed in borosilicate. Each glass bears a crocodile etched in reverse into the interior base — visible only when water fills the vessel, the animal surfacing from below. The exterior is inscribed with geographic coordinates corresponding to Newcastle and desert interior locations from the novel. When held to light, the glass's diagonal facets refract into a doubled image, mimicking Leif's corrected sight and his visual disturbance before entering the radio igloo. The series has circulated through craft fairs in Harare and Accra since 2023 and is held in the collection of the Harare Art Museum. [citation needed] Each piece is signed and numbered on the base with Moyo's mark.