Susan Begy
We the Extranimals
 Susan BegyWe the Extranimals
installation view |  Susan BegyWe the Extranimals
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 Susan BegyWe the Extranimals
installation view |  Susan BegyWe the Extranimals
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 We the Extranimalsvisitors |  We the Extranimalsvisitors |
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 Susan Begyfolds in the fabric,
2016, alabaster,
12 x 14 x 8 inches, $5500 |  Susan Begyfolds in the fabric,
2016, alabaster,
12 x 14 x 8 inches, $5500 |
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 Susan Begyfolds in the fabric,
2016, alabaster,
12 x 14 x 8 inches, $5500 |  Susan Begyzipper, butterfly, centipede,
2016, graphite on paper,
11.5 (8.75) x 38 inches (isosceles trapezoid shape), $800 |
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 Susan Begyyes all around,
2016, graphite on paper,
8.25 x 12.75 inches, $350 |  Susan BegyBiological, Omnicurious Bits,
2016, graphite on paper,
35 (18) x 11.5 inches (isosceles trapezoid shape), $800 |
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 Susan Begyhuchuman wink,
2016, graphite on paper,
8.25 x 12.75 inches, $350 |  Susan BegyExtranimal Eye |
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 Susan Begyred pants,
2016, acrylic & graphite on paper,
22 (18) x 20 inches (isosceles trapezoid shape), $800 |  Susan BegyWe the Extranimals, book
$15 |
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The installation We the Extranimals shares the story of Susan Begy’s extraordinary encounter and her response to it. In 2009, Begy, while walking her dog near Santa Fe stumbled upon a spacecraft from the planet Norian. A brief conversation and two short videos offered Begy a glimpse of the future. The craft had travelled through a wormhole in the year 2346, was thrown off course, and landed in the desert near Begy’s home. Aboard the craft was Anicca Holt, a psychobiologist, who had visited Norian to study and observe the second generation of a human hybrid species called huchumans—humans crossbred with chugaimans. Chugaimans are one of three intelligent species on planet Norian. Holt shared with Begy video footage of a huchuman and a mysterious matter known as Biological Omnicurious Bits (BOB) that the chugaimans, and now huchumans, exchange with one another to maintain their collective and individual psychosocial and physical well being.