Two other hybrid creatures, “Health Through Sport” and “Above the Clouds Midnight Passes…,” were produced in a photographic medium which suggests a document of something unworldly that really exists. The extant collage for “Above the Clouds Midnight Passes” provides a telling example of Ernst’s goal in the instance. On a photograph of clouds viewed from above, he has constructed a strange hybrid female being from details of three black-and-white reproductions: a crocheted form which serves as a bifurcated, wing-like head that surmounts a ball-of-twine torso and the bare legs of a female model in high heeled shoes. The evidence of the cutting and gluing of these three parts and their contrast to the tan color of the cloudscape attract attention to the artist’s hand in the creation of this work. But in the photographic enlargement of this collage (28 ¾ x 21 5/8 inches vs. 7 ½ x 5 1/8 inches), the presence of the artist is removed by the suppression of the collage edges and by the overall black/white tonality of the photograph, further muted by the softer definition of the photographic print. With some visual effort, we may conclude that this strange creature was derived from some sort of photomontage—the tradition had been established early on in history of photography—but that conclusion is not comforting for long in the face of the matter-of-fact presence of this armless creature whose eyes transfix us like those of the enchanted plant creatures in Ernst’s animated landscapes. There is a more convincing quality to that crocheted head than to the human legs, and there is a more convincing quality to this creature overall than to the traditional hybrids of Emil Bayard.