{Copenhagen Extension, 2012. (Please click to enlage and explore. You need only tilt your head to the right to see the scene in full)}
We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate for having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein do we err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with the extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings: they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.
Henry Beston (1888-1968)
The Outermost House
{Copenhagen Extension (cover), a unique state artists' book of mine featuring collage elements and pencil. You can see it on display here.}
+ Thanks, good folk at Craft Victoria, for your delightful words about our current exhibition.
