Simulacrum is a chapter of the book, Migration in the Anthropocene designed by the members of DMA 140 Fall 25 - Word and Image taught by Prof. Rebeca Méndez and T.A. Stamatis Hamouzas. This particular copy was designed and bound by me.

Simulacrum investigates how the nonmigratory subspeices of the Allen's Hummingbird (Selasphorus Sasin Sedentarius) local to Los Angeles has been affected by artificial hummingbird feeders.

This piece was featured in the 2026 UCLA DMA Undergraduate Gallery, Acid Reflux. This was the piece's display, with a handful of zines of my section of the book that viewers could read.

There's a sort of bizarre domestication process going on with these hummingbird feeders: A large amount of the Allen's Hummingbird population in LA is entirely dependent on them. If humans stopped feeding them, millions could die in a matter of weeks. I made this book to empathize with them. We're not very different. understand how they live in a world that with a (title calL!)

To the right and below are some spreads and images from the book.

some fun fonts from a scanner. The text was extracted and used for chapter dividers.

Gorbachev in a Pizza Hut ad from the '90s. Lightly edited.