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"THE KILLING OF THE WILDMAN"
2007 : 29cm x 42cm : Inks & markers on card
This work stands in stark contrast to the balanced nature of the previous pieces. Derived from a petroglyph showing a lizard man figure being attacked by scorpions and snakes, I have tried to express the violence and chaos of such an attack. There is also a celestial element again - I took the art to represent the region of the sky around the constellation of Ophiuchus. I feel that people of the Negev may have had a particular myth that narrated the falling of this constellation from the summer sky, and that their particular variant involved a violent end. Perhaps it involved the kind of killing of the summer king that Robert Graves wrote of. |

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