"In modern culture, animals are used anthropomorphic manifestations of human character and emotion, often given names and attributed personalities. This humanizing tendency has metastasized through the popular imagination, in cartoons, zoology, children’s fables and the Internet. Using animals as conduits of human wisdom and story telling is a tradition as old as time itself, but at no other time has this mythology risen to the phantasmic heights it has today, where we actually truly believe that animals feel and function just like we do. That animals are virtual avatars of ourselves, completely mirroring our psychological conception of the world as we know it. 

In this multi-sensorial work, this performative mirroring is accentuated by fusing black humor with absurdity to reflect our contemporary moment: on stage, taxidermy animals who are no longer alive narrate their story from beginning to end, using tropes of lyrical folk songs and a cacophonous rock musical. Much like they are seen in the displays of natural history museums, a drama unfolds through their silent bodies by simply hinting there is a voice or action emanating from them.