Chimeras Should Consider the Flame

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This is a chimera for the ever-changing and overstimulating 21st century. As late-stage capitalism plods on and the climate steadily disintegrates, this human-animal hybrid retreat s into her shell and hopes it will all blow over. Chimeras are appealing due to their connection to established folklore as well as more contemporary genres like body-horror. The thought of your own body morphing out of its familiar form expresses sensations around overwhelming loss of control as we experience disease, climate change and global conflict. My chimera questions the viewer’s humanness, their relationship to their own body, and that body’s relationship to its environment. Show more