Cerca Series: Joshua Mosley presents dread (2007), a mixed-media installation consisting of a short animated film and five bronze sculptures. Recently on view at the 52nd Venice Biennale to critical acclaim, Joshua Mosley's dread combines computer animation, stop-motion animation, digital sound, sculpture, as well as the artist's own music and dialogue, creating a philosophical exploration of the human necessity to confront and apprehend nature.
 
In the film, an animated photographic forest is the background against which two characters—modeled on French philosophers Jean Jacques Rousseau and Blaise Pascal—hold a conversation on the relationship between God-given natural order, free will, and the human and animal conditions.