Black, Bird @ eXMeLab @ Arizona State Arts and Sciences West Valley

This is a creature you use to plug holes with. We insert it into any excuse we care to create, massage it into any message we wish to deliver, pigeon-hole it into any stereotype we want to label, we let it fly and let it stick, then we turn around and say nothing. We pinch it into everyone’s bodies and cover up the cracks, we say “there it must be flying!” which frees us from any explanation. This creature is what we actually fear, but instead of holding on, we let it fly because we have no other way of knowing.

Physically, this creature has one eye, the one looking intently at you while you think of it from three minds. It can combine with anything to form one thing, so it is always part of whatever form that we create, because it knows our limits and plays with our insecurities. It can make noise that sounds like whistling but the tones are indefinite, of a sine-wave nature that varies slowly and surely because it mirrors us when we have nothing to say. Its shadow looks like a human from Plato’s Cave, because it reflects both our true knowledge, and our unwillingness to engage. It is dark, and it can fly, but contrary to our expectations, it spends most of its time walking around. When it does occasionally fly, it goes out of sight, so that a mirror of us is left staring us from its one true eye. When this happens, we see merely a reflection of our own insecurities in green light, with a sharp cry that jumps away from its sine-waves into a cacophony. When you truly move, it flies, covering your vision with its shadowy wings.

Confirmed that the collab RAY LC on the webpage is shown in the video on the webpage: https://davecolangelo.com/index.php/projects/elusive-ones/