Presented within the illusion of a museum drawer, this work depicts a luminous hybrid beetle pinned beneath labels that offer little meaningful data—Specimen: Unknown. Species name: Chrysina papilionoides. Locality: Unverified. Collector: Forgotten. Despite its precision, the specimen remains unrecognized by the system meant to classify it, suspended in the gaps created by mislabeling, categorical limits, or the quiet erosion of archival memory.

 Within The Museum of Lost Evidence, Misfiled Specimen reflects on how knowledge can slip from view—not through disappearance, but through error and oversight. The piece suggests that attentive looking, scientific or artistic, can restore value to what falls outside established categories, revealing how easily the extraordinary can be lost within the architecture of the record.

The full context of the series begins with The Broken Compass.