Realization for the Unnamable and UnclaimableĀ Aria/Potential Threnody for the Critical and Pre-Taxonomized (RFUU) (2016) Aesthetically indeterminate cryptozoological and endangered/extinct organisms via āanimatronicsā were placed in a darkened room in which ontology is given various complications. The stand-ins were placed via Fortean tactics of dialectically assembling accounts against experience, to reformulate encounters with the āunknownā and the difficulties in quantifying said account/experience into rationality.
The viewer is presented a text illustrating the history of these organisms that are thought to have limited to no existance despite existing in folk, ontologies, histories, and/or myth or recently verigied been verified at levels of critical endangerment. The organisms represented are done with minimal means/ability to further accentuate the Burkean sublime/trauma of accounts based on encounter with these organisms in the wild and folk histories. The organisms were rendered into existence in oil paint for cryptids to ensure permanence and watercolor as is protocol for the taxonimized.
a petition to be put into California state legislature to give temporary protection for speculative/pre-taxonomized organisms, a stronger protection of critically endangered species is present.
If in doubt entrance into the darkened room with a wildlife checklist in hand is an option. The organisms are sensitive and reactive emitting actions that intensify as they are observed . When the batteries are drained the organism is effectively extinct and will not be ārechargedā. If dissatisfied they may discard their checklist in a historical elephant foot trash can upon exiting
A series ofĀ ariasĀ were recorded with these either extinct or unverified organisms whose sounds have rarely been described. The aria/threnody format to further establish the sublime and over-aestheticized social acceptance of these otherwise conflicting organisms
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