being dressed in colorful feathers is not only additive ornamental; it is to scatter the gaze, to blur the outline of meaning and being seen; feather dresses distract, obscure, mislead ... not out of whimsy but from the deliberate confusion of a phoenix. the goal isn't a communication failure; but a strategy of refusal to be pinned down, to be parsed, to be made legible to the machine’s need of patterns.