Description

Artist Statement by Dustin Ferguson

Towering in skeletal silence at the Philip J. Currie Museum in Wembley, Alberta, this apex predator from another age stands frozen—its bones a brutal echo of a world ruled by instinct.

Green hues and a jungle-like backdrop pull us backward in time, to an era where survival was stripped of emotion. You were either predator or prey. There was no mercy, no reflection—only the raw will to kill or be killed.

The hollow frame of this dinosaur exerts a chilling emptiness. It’s not just a fossil—it’s a symbol of primitive power, of life reduced to its most basic terms.

“Prehistoric Threat” is a meditation on ferocity, extinction, and the haunting simplicity of survival. It asks us to consider what remains when instinct outlives flesh—and whether we, too, carry echoes of that ancient hunger.