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Kite
Impression #7 of the plate Kite
Finished 18 July 2021
Drypoint Intaglio Print, Hand-colored with Watercolor
8 × 10 in (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
An elephant with her kite.
Sometimes life is stranger than fiction.
Pretending us humans with our myriad distractions would be the first to ever notice extra terrestrials is the kind of anthropocentric folly we are all to easily fooled by.
If aliens did magically appear is almost certain the world of animals and plants will be the first to notice. They live in and of the natural world not on top of it. Ever observant, life for them depends upon knowing exactly what is happening around them at all times. If something was amiss in our atmosphere and outer space creeps were lurking in the shadows I'll put my faith into spiders and elk knowing before anyone else.
Elephants have generational knowledge carefully curated and shared since time immortal. I'm pretty sure if they find a little flying saucer poking around the Savannah they will probably already know with it is and what to do with it.
I imagine they will fly it as a kite, because what could be more fun for a trunk than a kite.
8 by 10 inches. Drypoint intaglio print. Watercolor added by hand. 2018.
Inscribed
#7 18/7/2021 Kite
State
Not recorded.
Either side
Provenance
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Exhibitions
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Literature
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Materials
Watercolour, Hand-colouring, Intaglio, Drypoint, Printmaking
Index
hand-colored, edition variants, elephant, kite, flying saucer, first contact, anthropocentrism, intelligence of nature, lineage, play, humor, yellow