(PLEASE NOTE: this piece is MEANT TO BE VIEWED IN A GALLERY SETTING. This sculpture is as much about the experience of looking in a box as it is about what is inside the box. I had debated even taking pictures of it, but I can't *not* show you guys. So.... Eventually I may take video to try and replicate the experience, but without actually *being* there it kinda loses a lot of its dramatic effect.)

This was a collaborative mixed-media sculpture that was as much an exercise in art as it was in 'OH SHIT FINALS JUST HAPPENED AND WE HAVE JUST ONE WEEK TO MAKE AN ENTIRE THING!!!'

Here we have an enclosed diorama of two unidentified theropods taking down and munching on an unidentified sauropod (while it's still alive and fighting, nonetheless!) as the K2 comet streaks through the background.

Not only is this scene just fun (gratuitous Cretaceous violence, anyone?) but it speaks to many adults who view it about Life: how sometimes just when you think you're at the top of your game (the feasting predators) something could be coming up on you that will absolutely Fuck Your World (the comet). That, and the few children who have gotten to view the box seem to have an instinct for how to view it (adults have to be instructed for some reason) and seem to think it's (and I'm quoting directly from what a child whispered as he viewed it) "Totally cool!"

Basically what we (me and Jessie, my collaborative partner) did was build a box, paint the background so it forced the perspective, then sculpt the dinosaurs and set them in the scene while they were being lit by two flashlights.

Funny story: if you stick a flashlight through a box so the handle comes out one end and then cover the whole thing in tight fabric it looks like a REALLY AWKWARD BONER. Mix that with the fact that we have cut two holes (eye holes) that look suspiciously like glory holes with that awkward boner, and you have what some people call "Artists not seeing the forest for the trees." We're lucky that we had a third pair of eyes to scope out the outside of the box and help us fix it. So thank you, Jason, for helping us figure that out!