This is one of my personal favourites from my 2005 show permanence that was shown at Photospace in Wellington.
I was intrigued at people reactions to it, many asking if it was just sleeping, others tentatively asking 'is it ummmmm... dead?'
How interesting, is it our optimistic sides coming out, or can we not comprehend death so easily in something so sweet and innocent as a little lamb. Or is it not obvious that this lamb is lying dead on the side of a gravel road, killed, i'd say by a car.
This image is of an edition of three, is a silver gelatin print and is still available for purchase.
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some people just want to deny nature. travelling through african gameparks i was surprised by the number of people upset over the fact that some lions had killed a zebra or gazelle or something.
when i first saw this image years ago it never crossed my mind that this lamb was anything other than dead. but then maybe i'm just more atuned to the darkness of life - or something
Isn't that intriguing!!! It makes me want to know if those people you speak of were vegetarian!!?
mostly not vegetarians. just city slickers who've never been confronted by the reality of life and death like that.
and i can't forget the aussie i met who thought that lamb meat was like wool - you know it gets cut off and grows back!!
some people obviously lead rather blinkered lives.
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