The chimera, a multi-headed creature found in Greek myth, is an actively shifting framework of looking. Aspects of the chimera can be found in nearly everything. Isolate certain details, examine histories and origins of seemingly “singular” objects and concepts, place a thing in a new context or relationship, you can impart in it a sense of transition, ironic interdependency, and hybridity. Two or more seemingly unrelated bodies sheathed in a seamless skin: justice and mercy, capitalistic spirituality, democratically electing a figurehead upon whom is bestowed almost divine rights, inanimate matter conjoined to create replicator molecules of various sorts, capable of resource competition. Then there is the abstract definition: a generally elusive impossibility, or enigma. This exhibition addresses the chimera as an action. To chimera (or chimerize), suggests the coming together of disparate things to create a new unity. But the action could be less physically comprehensible, metaphors of mashup, or stitching, in which the new third thing incorporates yet somehow transcends the character of its constituents, without entirely masking their presence. By invoking action, the chimera’d thing is situated in time, suggesting change, producing forensic qualities that can then be chased backwards, or speculated forwards. Chimeras, mythological or analogical, live lives stemming from their original enmeshment and beyond and backwards. The paradox is the search for an origin point, only to find that the reverse is true: chimeras don’t extend into the past towards an originator, but bifurcate into dendritic deep time. This coupled action, moving backwards to genealogical origin, and an expansive family tree, is a chimera unto itself. Language, ideas, myth, elusive and ultimately subjective truths, couple action with action, in conceptual opposition, the relevance of which depends on the framework in which you are looking, and your purposes in doing so. Look to the future, and perplexity abounds. At the center of this extensive action is the chimera’d present, a focal point between imbricated, expanding infinites. -Reuben Merringer