The overhead perspective here collapses the subject into pure outline, reaching toward the flattened zoological urgency of Franz Marc's animal studies - though Aldridge strips away all expressionist colour to leave only the insistent circuit of a single looping contour. The bulging eye-bumps, splayed limbs, and wide crescent mouth read simultaneously as creature and cartoon glyph, interrogating where observation ends and caricature begins.
The overhead perspective here collapses the subject into pure outline, reaching toward the flattened zoological urgency of Franz Marc's animal studies - though Aldridge strips away all expressionist colour to leave only the insistent circuit of a single looping contour. The bulging eye-bumps, splayed limbs, and wide crescent mouth read simultaneously as creature and cartoon glyph, interrogating where observation ends and caricature begins.
- Curatorial note, wifärt gallery