Digital Chimeras

examples of digital chimera art -

a 'Geep'

A geep or sheep-goat chimera, first bred in Australia in 1978. It was produced by combining the embryos of a sheep and a goat so the animal has both cells. It's not the same as a sheep-goat hybrid where a goat mates with a sheep.

Chimera definition

Definitions of chimera include -

1. a mythological, fire-breathing monster, commonly represented with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail.

2. any similarly grotesque monster having disparate parts, esp. as depicted in decorative art.

 

 

3. a horrible or unreal creature of the imagination; a vain or idle fancy.

4. Genetics - an organism composed of two or more genetically distinct tissues, as an organism that is partly male and partly female, or an artificially produced individual having tissues of several species.

Chimera objects

 

Photos of the objects I am using to make my first chimera