Beastie girls

This is a photo of a rare moment and is the first stepping stone for later manifestations of The Rabbitbird (2018). The original photograph transformed through time and media. It manifested itself as illuminated mural paintings and video installations. The two girls are also seen in the feature film Dreaming the Memories of Now (2018), from a safe distance through car windows by puzzled drivers and passengers on the road to Yagul, Mexico on a late Sunday afternoon in March 2014.

Beastie Girls (2015, 2017) is a suite about two mythical creatures that resemble twin girls with heads of a rabbit and bird. Zoocephalic sightings such as these are reminiscent of popular lores recorded in the village of Santa Ana Zegache (Oaxaca, Mexico), where there is a legend of a certain 'bruja' (witch) who appears at night and plays insidious head-switching pranks on living creatures.  Beastie Girls # 2 Mother and Daughter (2015) is a portrait of a mother and a daughter on an agave field in Yagúl (Oaxaca, Mexico).  The background has been cropped out and their faces are covered by animal masks. The portrait completely lacks a distinguishable location as well as the ability to present discernible faces: an anonymized portrait. It is made in the tradition of Mexican fotoesculturas: a carved and painted cedarwood profile with flat section planes holding cutouts of a photographic print. The seamless collage of a relief sculpture and a photograph is encompassed within a massive frame of hand-carved mahogany treated with varnish.

Beastie Girls (2015, 2017) is a suite about two mythical creatures that resemble twin girls with heads of a rabbit and bird. Zoocephalic sightings such as these are reminiscent of popular lores recorded in the village of Santa Ana Zegache (Oaxaca, Mexico), where there is a legend of a certain 'bruja' (witch) who appears at night and plays insidious head-switching pranks on living creatures.  Beastie Girls #3 Boxed Walk Cycle (2017) is a motion pattern of the zoocephalic twins and was captured on film in a studio at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. The recordings were then transferred to Sefrou, Morocco. There a metal worker in the outskirts of the medina produced two iron boxes with all the pertaining cranks, spindles, hinges, and cogwheels needed for the design of the swivel-mechanism of flipbook. Breaking down the filmic motion into individual frames, the animation cycle of each creature is contained in the form of double-sided cards within a rolodex. The hand-cranked movement of these "boxed wanderers'' travels from left to right and right to left: a relentless motion that never reaches its final destination.

Beastie Girls (2015, 2017) is a suite about two mythical creatures that resemble twin girls with heads of a rabbit and bird. Zoocephalic sightings such as these are reminiscent of popular lores recorded in the village of Santa Ana Zegache (Oaxaca, Mexico), where there is a legend of a certain 'bruja' (witch) who appears at night and plays insidious head-switching pranks on living creatures.  Beastie girls #4: On the Roof of Porfirio Díaz 508, Oaxaca (2015) is a photo work of the twin girls when they are observed on the roof of Porfirio Díaz 508, as conveyed by the title.