jennhoule:

“Animal Herds” on view at the Artist and Craftsman in Cambridge, MA until September 2nd. 

“Animal Herds” is a mobile installation piece of hundreds of small cut out animal paintings that are assembled in the life size forms of wolves. The wolf is composed of the animals that it eats, including deer, caribou, moose, musk oxen, bison, mice and many others. Each prey animal is painted on polypropylene paper with radiant color bleeds in fluid ink, which is countered by the specificity of the cut animal shape.

“Animal Herds” represents the variety of species that once roamed the United States; some of these animals may have even passed through in this very space in Beverly before. Due to massive extermination campaigns and overdevelopment of natural areas, gray wolves are now endangered in the U.S. except for a small number of states.  Their struggle for survival hinges on the presence of a healthy, diverse ecosystem, indicated by the wide variety of species that they subsist on.  The energy from the prey is stored in the body of the wolf, becoming part of the predator upon consumption. In this piece, the animals herd together to form their predator and change formation each time the piece is installed, creating a new form of existence.

Animals are directly connected and affected by the rhythms of nature. These rhythms exist from the molecular to the cosmic level: an infinite cycle of birth, life, death, that stretches on beyond comprehension. We are all part of this greater cycle. I hope to pass on a deep respect for the complex survival tale of animals that eat, mate and forage in the wild.

Categories: art, animals, installation,
via lustik
  1. mycrazyca reblogged this from lustik
  2. nahcal reblogged this from acidgreenfilling
  3. acidgreenfilling reblogged this from theseaisagreatplace
  4. theseaisagreatplace reblogged this from jennhoule
  5. pitzka reblogged this from lustik
  6. iplus-seed reblogged this from lustik
  7. ratta2ey reblogged this from lustik
  8. frecklebitches reblogged this from haleyth
  9. kleinen-gelben-vogel reblogged this from lustik
  10. haleyth reblogged this from feedyourheadddd
  11. lustik reblogged this from jennhoule
  12. feedyourheadddd reblogged this from iamthewolff
  13. iamthewolff reblogged this from jennhoule and added:
    this is the coolest fucking thing ever. of all time. the end.
  14. mrawxx reblogged this from jennhoule
  15. raised-by--wolves reblogged this from jennhoule
  16. mellebelle92 reblogged this from jennhoule and added:
    Art is all about bullshit.
  17. thebrightbrutality reblogged this from jennhoule
  18. fuckingbluesclues reblogged this from jennhoule
  19. jennhoule posted this