Fantast 0030 | Geminocollis amictus
Short Description
A tall form balanced on one extended limb, the torso plated in iridescent blue-grey and flanked by broad membranous wings of pale rose, each marked with deep magenta striations. The neck bifurcates at mid-height into two separate columns, each terminating in a small head bearing a recurved beak-horn and a sparse crest weighted with dark, bead-like secretions.
Movement has been recorded, though rarely. When it occurs, it is small — a single step, a fractional reorientation of one neck — before stillness resumes.
Each head orients toward a different point on the horizon. Whether this constitutes vigilance, or some form of internal division, has not been established.
Process
Fantast started as a simple question: what happens when you bring an imaginary creature into existence?
The process turned out to be more layered than expected. Each creature begins as a sketch, finding a form, a posture, a sense of anatomy. That drawing becomes the basis for a realistic render. The render receives a Latin binomial name and a field note written in the dry register of natural history. Then a voice-over. Then a score. All of it is assembled into a fixed visual format and published across channels as an animated field guide entry.
The project is called Fantast. Set as a field guide to creatures that science has yet to disprove.
What interests me is how each tool in that chain, generative image, language model, audio, doesn’t replace the creative decision. It extends it. The imagination still has to go somewhere first. It’s been running quietly on Instagram, Reddit and TikTok for over a month now and people respond. Recently it was featured in the Web Curious newsletter, which was much appreciated.
Where does it go from here? Honestly, the ambition is a physical exhibition. These creatures in a museum context, field notes on the wall, animations in the cases, the whole taxonomy laid out as if it were real. That’s the version I’m working towards.
