No two accounts of the Barnacle Goose Tree-Bird agree on its dimensions, yet all concur on the sensation it provokes: a recognition of pattern where none should exist. First indexed in the Workshop of the Très Riches Heures during the 14th Century, it feeds on ambient data and excretes ice & crystal in crystalline formations. The crystalline refraction in which it is depicted here was chosen for its capacity to hold contradictory truths simultaneously.