The Museum of Jurassic Technology Boneflower (2000) 8.5" x 11" Limited Edition of 200 Embossed with Seal & Numbered

David Wilson is an artist, a designer, and the curator of the Museum of Jurassic Technology, his own art installation and a provocative commentary on how we organize and archive cultural artifacts. Through his collection of biological, archaeological, and cultural curiosities, displayed as "exhibits" in a network of little rooms, Wilson blurs the distinctions among museum, mausoleum, and library to challenge our acquiescence to the traditional means of presenting and preserving knowledge. His work underscores the fragility of our beliefs, and at the same time, highlights the remarkable potential of the human imagination. The Museum of Jurassic Technology raises questions about what museums are, mean, and do. Fact and fiction are displayed with equal precision and diligence; natural history items share space with artifacts of surreal technology. Wilson's one-of-a-kind and always changing exhibition is a gentle intellectual parody of repositories of art, history, and culture that invites the visitor to reflect on and reexamine what is being presented and protected. He is both a master inventor, imagining and designing each exhibit in the most minute detail, and a creator of the highest art, inspiring wonder and taking the viewer to new levels of imagination. His art challenges perceptions of what is real and what is not, and forces reinterpretations of our understanding of science, natural history, mythology, and vernacular art forms. Wilson is a lone, and sometimes quirky, ombudsman of our changing information landscape, and as such, a necessary and important voice in our time. In 2001, David was a recipient of the prestigious MacArthur "Genius" Award.