There's a directness here that belongs to the oldest tradition of animal drawing there is - the same reduction to diagnostic silhouette found from Lascaux to Altamira, where the point was never likeness but recognition at a glance. A broad hindquarter loop anchors the left, a rectangular body sits forward, and four vertical legs drop from a shared base with the blunt confidence of a hand that knows exactly which marks it needs and which it doesn't.
There's a directness here that belongs to the oldest tradition of animal drawing there is - the same reduction to diagnostic silhouette found from Lascaux to Altamira, where the point was never likeness but recognition at a glance. A broad hindquarter loop anchors the left, a rectangular body sits forward, and four vertical legs drop from a shared base with the blunt confidence of a hand that knows exactly which marks it needs and which it doesn't.
- Curatorial note, wifärt gallery