Still Life with FossilsThe skeleton of the Tyrannosaurus rex awakes as if from a deep slumber.
He takes in the landscape of his surroundings, expecting to see streams and spongy earth and velvet-green foliage. He expects to be greeted by a bright and blazing sky, and perhaps a nearby nest where others of his kind are congregated. Instead, he finds that he is inside some sort of colossal structure. The ground in this place appears to be hard and smooth. Vivid images are painted on the walls. There are fantastic objects on every side. Below him, there are rocks that he can see right through, rocks that are perfectly flat and symmetrical and that seem to have coalesced around the remains of various organisms. Some of them even contain traditional rocks—rocks buried within rocks?—with the sha
