The Shanhaijing (山海經), or the Classic of Mountains and Seas, is an ancient Chinese mythic atlas and bestiary that has long fascinated me. Modeled after the Classic’s repetitive combinatorial descriptions, Of Mountains and Seas generates speculative hybrid creatures in imagined landscapes. The animals and attributes included in the beasts’ constructions carry associations with the folkloric Trickster, the mischief-makers and boundary-crossers who emerge during times of upheaval, who dance on the thresholds of new worlds in the making. In contrast, sacrificial beings draw from representations of the dominant and domesticated. Journey through these liminal regions to encounter the many tricksters and shapeshifters who lurk in the crossings.