Paléontologie Spéculative 1

Patron Wanted

Most collectors acquire finished works. This project offers something different: the opportunity to participate in building something.

Paléontologie Spéculative #1 is a proposal to create a museum-scale fossil skeleton belonging to a species that never existed.

The funds will support a small team of artists and crafts-persons who would imagine an entirely new creature.

This will take years likely. The scope of the project is likely to grow a lot. Bones might be carved from wood, cast in metal, assembled from stone, ceramic, resin, or other materials. Each contributor would leave traces of their craft within the larger whole.

The patron would participate throughout the process. Decisions about scale, character, fabrication, exhibition, and documentation would be developed collaboratively. Rather than simply purchasing an artwork, the patron would help shape its existence.

Estimated budget: beginning at $1 million.

The final artwork would belong to the patron.