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    The Uncanny Clockwork of Fantastic Contraption

    Welcome back to The Jewels of Apator, a biweekly column from Ann & Jeff VanderMeer about the intersection between art and the fantastic. In La Jolla, California, a very unusual art exhibit called Fantastic Contraption has been on display most of the summer. The best way to think of the aesthetic impulse behind this exhibit is as a meshing of the organic and the inorganic. Hosted by The Device Gallery (founded by Gregory and Amy Brotherton), it features the work of, among others, Mike Libby, H.R. Giger, Kazuhiko Nakamura, Ashley Wood, Nemo Gould, and Gregory Brotherton himself. More »