Amphoebian deals with biological mutation within the test tube of a 
computer screen. The piece is a scientific experiment with life itself. 
An amphoebian transforms itself into a dragon, and is washed away by 
light. Painlessly. A scary and beautiful mutation transforms into a 
shining dragon, only to be obliterated by a cold white light.

Throughout the piece are "mistakes and inaccuracies" of computer 
"bugs", "black frames", and other "errors" in animation. However, 
these are taken into stride as energies of the transformations, 
as dark scientists may incorporate their mutated creatures in 
their collection of wild, denatured beasts.

In amphoebia, even when science is "dark", the general progression 
is "towards enlightenment", as the rougher, reptilian animation 
becomes more smooth; greater light emerges, first through the body 
of the amphoebian, then blazing in the center.

Amphoebian plays with the boundaries of science and magic, as high 
technology and magic converge. The secret connotations of sorcery 
merge together with the knowledge of the cutting edge technology 
that is accessible only to specialists.

Some dark humor about the amphoebian washed out in the cold light, 
and the red bug, referring to the messenger of the sun god Ra burned 
by the sun. Especially when the beetle climbs back into the sun, is 
rejected, and sent down into the ground. Also when the sky collapses 
very two dimensionally, keeps falling, and then rises for an instant, 
before the entire screen is washed out, reveals my ironic sense of 
humor. Not to mention that the frog and the snake are mutated into 
one, although snakes tend to eat frogs in the natural word.

One key in the piece is the light. While it energies the scene, like
uncontrolled knowledge, burns the whole screen. It is science gone 
awry like an intervention in the environment of the test tube. Yet the 
light is also light, symbolic of revelation and shining truths. The 
light purifies, energizes, yet burns. It is coldly impersonal, has 
burning proximity, yet maintains an elusive transparency of light.