IMAGINARIUM · SERIES ONE

Do not assume the bones are the whole story.

The first drawing had two shadows. Only one belonged to the dinosaur.

Follow the field notes in order. Each one answers a clue, changes the picture and leaves something for the next specimen.

Start with the TyrannosaurusBack to the Imaginarium

A fictional mystery with separate factual reading. Pterosaurs and plesiosaurs are prehistoric reptiles, not dinosaurs.

  1. An atmospheric desk and sketchbook showing pencil studies of Tyrannosaurus and an imagined winged alternative.
    01

    Tyrannosaurus rex

    The Drawing with Two Shadows

    I drew a dinosaur. Something else cast the shadow.

    Read field note 01
  2. A feathered Velociraptor sketch beside a forearm study and a folded note with three pointed marks.
    02

    Velociraptor

    The Arm That Pointed Somewhere Else

    The first clue was real. The second one should not have been there.

    Read field note 02
  3. A Triceratops head sketch beside tracing paper exploring a doorway shape between its horns.
    03

    Triceratops

    The Crown That Was a Doorway

    Three points. A familiar skull. An unfamiliar instruction.

    Read field note 03
  4. A Parasaurolophus pencil study with crest sketches, sound marks and an imagined woodland passage.
    04

    Parasaurolophus

    The Instrument Without Its Music

    The tube had an answer. The silence did not.

    Read field note 04
  5. A Carnotaurus sketch with imagined blue, copper and yellow washes beside colour references.
    05

    Carnotaurus

    The Monster in Borrowed Colours

    I knew the shape. I had never seen those colours.

    Read field note 05
  6. A pterosaur pencil study with membrane-wing sketches and a separate imagined dragon.
    06

    Pterosaur

    The Finger That Held the Sky

    The wing was real. The creature beyond it was not.

    Read field note 06
  7. A Plesiosaurus sketch above dark water with an impossible doorway drawn in its reflection.
    07

    Plesiosaurus

    The Reflection with a Door

    The water hid a shape I had already drawn.

    Read field note 07
  8. An Ankylosaurus sketched facing a dark doorway, beside the recurring puzzle marks.
    08

    Ankylosaurus

    The Guardian Facing the Wrong Way

    I assumed it was guarding us. Then I saw where it stood.

    Read field note 08
  9. An unfinished dragon sketch beside loose clue drawings and a questioned doorway outline.
    09

    The Dragon Problem

    The Creature We Kept Drawing

    We had assembled a dragon. We had missed the puzzle.

    Read field note 09
  10. A loose sketchbook sheet depicting a faceless artist at a desk seen through a dark doorway.
    10

    The First Pattern

    The Page That Looked Back

    The puzzle had an answer. The answer had someone behind it.

    Read field note 10

Known. Questioned. Imagined.

The real animal is the starting point. A question changes how we look at it. A lost form takes that possibility into fiction. None of the imaginary versions is presented as a fossil discovery.