Modeled after a nineteenth-century museum display, this work presents an imagined hybrid songbird rendered within the illusion of a shadowbox. Catalogued as Baeolophus–Poecile hybridus, the specimen is accompanied by a single feather—modest evidence offered for its proposed existence.

 Within The Museum of Lost Evidence, Specimen of Possibility reflects on the long tradition in natural history of using imagination alongside observation to explore what might exist beyond the known record. Through its intimate scale and precise rendering, the piece considers how interpretation, naming, and display shape our sense of the plausible. It suggests that scientific images can act not only as documentation but as propositions—opening space for forms that could be real even when they remain unseen.

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