Can you guess what this is supposed to be? Can your mind comprehend it? Do you have the capacity to behold such terrors?

It's a moogle. Or so it is said to be. It's from some sort of art show in London in 2002 called "Game On", about the history and development of computer games. The page this is on originally came to my attention because it showed the work of a woman who made a chocobo costume for the event for a client. The kicker was that she knew nothing about video games, and had to design the costume based solely on a text description with no visual aides whatsoever. This is what she came up with:

It's at the bottom of the page where we see other examples from other artists in the show, and their, um, interpretations of various characters. That's where the "moogle" comes in, along with the likes of Chun Li and Crash Bandicoot (looking more like Fox McCloud got a full-body dye job):

There has to be some critical bit of information I'm missing here. These are artists, for God's sake. If cosplayers can manage reasonable facsimiles using household items, surely artists can. But why was it comissioned in the first place? Isn't a gallery for showing things people actually wanted to make themselves?

There's also this bit at the end of her article about the costume's construction:

I saw the bird in the Barbican on the open evening, and again the other day. It is still holding up. It is a pity there wasn't more to explain why the costumes are in a computer game show, especially as most of them don't actually look like the actual character.

In the end, they didn't hire actors to wear the costumes, as it was too expensive.

Well it certainly sounds like this show is in good hands. Somehow it's still touring four years later. I can only hope they didn't take the moogle with them.