testsite 6.3: Jules Buck Jones and Caitlin Haskell

testsite 6.3

Beast-Footed Feathered Serpents (Therapod Quetzalcoatalus)

Jules Buck Jones and Caitlin Haskell

July 16th - August 27th, 2006

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Jules Buck Jones, Bird Swarm (detail), 2006. Image courtesy of the artist.

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Beast-Footed Feathered Serpents contains works about dinosaurs, fish, and birds, and is sometimes about dinosaurs, fish, and birds, but is equally about line, emotion, and evolutionary dominance. Though they are attuned to taxonomical accuracy, the honesty and the imaginative vitality of the large-scale compositions in this exhibition overflow the realms of natural history and biology to comment unselfconsciously on psychology, freedom, and other profoundly basic conditions of life.

The writing component of this collaboration between Jules Buck Jones and Caitlin Haskell takes two forms: decks of animal POWERfact playing cards and an essay composed by Haskell that considers the epistemology of a dinosaur drawer, while reflecting on the three-month-long process leading up to this exhibition.

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