Our guest of honor for this new installment of Pleased to Meet You is the artist Laurent Le Deunff. He happily dips his pencils in the pure water of country streams, using myths of origin as backdrops and cartoon gags as plotlines, while tracking, poaching and taking a ride on ancestral dreams linked to the living. As an accomplished cryptozoologist, he incessantly repeats the demiurgic act of modelling things from clay-or papier-mâché, or cement-and can boast of having created numerous hybrid animals, mutant creatures from the wild and the studio, zombies and fossils. On Le Deunff's ark, where a deer can easily take on the form of a slug or a cow that of a man, the various phyla frolic in a state of happy fluidity worthy of Metamorphoses.

Alongside a dense portfolio of photos from the artist's studio, we have also included a wide variety of views captured at recent exhibitions. Le Deunff is interviewed at length by Steven L. Bridges, the Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Eli & Edith Broad Art Museum and is also the subject of an essay by Dorothée Dupuis, an exhibition curator, art critic and publisher, based in Mexico City.