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[ELLEN GALLAGHER: "OSEDAX"]

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[MUSIC ECHOES THROUGH GALLERY]

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It seems like animation has always been implied in my work,

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and has always been moving towards that.

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[NEW MUSEUM, NEW YORK CITY]

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In the painting, the way that the form is abstracted is like early animation.

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I break them down into moving parts.

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[SOUND OF PROJECTOR MOTOR]

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["OSEDAX" (2010), EDGAR CLEIJNE & ELLEN GALLAGHER]

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Osedax is a bone-devouring worm that was recently discovered

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off of the coast of Monterey.

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What they thought they came upon was a cliff jutting out from an ocean canyon.

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They took off a chunk of it and brought it back into the lab.

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And they saw that it actually was a whale bone,

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and that there were all these plummy forms coming out of it.

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And as they looked at these plummy forms they saw they were a new worm

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that hadn't been categorized yet.

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I was really attracted to the way the scientists described finding the form.

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It was such a literary device.

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You think you're seeing one thing,

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and then it turns out to be something completely different.

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This idea of evolution--and evolutionary possibilities--

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quite often repeats in science fiction.

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For me, the protocols of science fiction

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and the protocols of science are not separate--

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they're woven together.

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Whale fall happens as whales descend through the depths of the ocean at their death.

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And it carries with it so much knowledge.

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So all those secret passages you hear about

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between the Atlantic and the Pacific...

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All of these routes then become lost.

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So I thought that the osedax worm

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inscribes these systems of travel into the bone.

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And it's a paper box inscribed on both sides

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to signify this kind of carving.

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Edgar Cleijne and I wanted to create these passageways in the film.

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For instance, we turned a blob of ink into a 3D model,

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and so this paper bird swims through this--literally--

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through what's a blob of ink is now a tunnel.

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Matter is not fixed and is always in motion.

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You're dealing with this idea of ecology, transformation, and evolution

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into something different.