A wheeled 'ancestor' made of bonesSourced
The artist built a strange creature—and wrote a fake scholarly report about it.
In 1959, Remedios Varo made Homo rodans from discarded animal bones: an imagined human precursor with a wheel instead of legs. She also wrote a satirical anthropological account of its supposed discovery.
The fictional research became part of the artwork.
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