Rick Silva’s website bills him as an artist whose work explores “notions of landscape and wilderness in the 21st century.” His latest project looks forward to the weird wildlife of the 31st.
The Silva Field Guide to Birds of a Parallel Future is basically what it says on the label. In short video clips, rendered in graphics software like Cinema 4D, Silva shows us 18 ornithological specimens of the future. They’re glitchy, curious things—some mesmerizing, some arresting. One heron-like beast, cycling through psychedelic colors, moves by slowly swooping not just his wings but his neck and tail feathers, too. A swan glides peacefully, his wings raised upward surrounding a featureless white orb. One entry is little more than a Borg-like cube of feathers. You wouldn’t necessarily want these guys stopping by your bird feeder.
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