Just as they would appear in a dream, Benesch's creatures are based on beings from our world, but slightly warped, like a child’s imagining of an animal. The Shepherd shows a two-headed sheep with a large, fluffy gray body, sheep-like hooves in the front, and eagle-like talons in the back. Holding round bells in each mouth, the beast hovers above a sea or a sky, emerging from beyond an off-white curtain. The creatures depicted in these worlds, the artist describes, are “not on the pages but in the folds, waiting for us to discover them.” There is more to our reality than meets the eye.