Speculative Imaginary: Intertext, Interspecies

This project is currently planned in installments to eventually become a fully realized alternate reality that borrows from and reinterprets other texts -- films, literarature, other artists, etc. -- predominantly fantastical in nature.

Speculative Imaginaries engage potent methods of calling forth possibility and change, of disrupting current "normalizing discourses," where what could be otherwise comes to seem natural, inevitable, or "the best we can do for now," and the contingent is rendered seemingly unalterable.

Questions of illustration and artistic lineage arise; when mixing up so many sources that have their own pre-described terrain, word + image must join forces to produce something entirely else-wise, and here lies the possibility.

[All imaginary settings need not reflect or resemble the natural world. Logic, physics, and plausibility are frequently ignored or violated. All Speculative Imaginings, from artifical mythologies to virtual realities, secret histories, phantom islands, dys/utopias, multiverses, and dream worlds, come with varied and strange mark-making, unusually and impossibly mixed media, unlikely renderings, and strategically dangerous technical processes.]