My creation of a hybrid creature mixes the following: wireless communication technology, in the form of cellular communication and video cameras; man, in the form of a walking guy in leather (undercover security type); animal, in the form of the cheetah; and plant, in the form of poisonous fungus.
My idea stems from horror movies that use monsters as a metaphor for social ills. For example Dracula as a means for exploring disease as an epidemic, like Werner Herzog did with his remake of Nosferatu. I thought it would be interesting to explore the uncertainties and fears of wireless technology, through a creature that lives in the cellular tree-like antennas that are used to boost wireless signals and are located on, ever-increasing, hilltops through out the world. The fears and uncertainties being whether or not exposure to low levels of radiation from boosting the wireless signal will have an effect on people in the long term.
A bit about the Psychic Cheetah: it is A-sexual, doesn’t eat and doesn’t sleep. It can project itself into people’s thoughts via their telephone calls and video screens. Similar to the cheetah’s head, exposure to its influence turns a person’s head into poisonous fungus. It steadily feeds on people’s psychic energy in a parasitic way, but can completely turn your head to rotting fungus if you become aware of it. It can materialize itself, as shown in the picture, but can also take the form of gas or voltage. In this way it is always, potentially, present in all of our wireless communications.
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