It's as if working with another artist, only one who doesn't talk, complain or make excuses for not finishing her end of the deal. Not all of the choices are entirely mine. I give it the, in this case, drawing and it finds where it wants to make a vector line or where it wants to make a fill of black. It is completely a surprise. And one that I cannot take total credit for. I didn't draw the circle, it was something in the copy of the image that caused that. Now I look at this drawing in a completely different way. Like the skeleton rabbit is alive and eating its way out of the ground.
Whenever I see a rabbit drawn in a realistic style, it always reminds me of the famous drawing by Durer. Even in skeleton form!
ReplyDeleteThe pose is interesting, as is the spotlight. It calls to mind a sort of foetal situation in the womb. I do think there is an association of the rabbit with a baby, since everyone first crawls... A futher aspect is the kind of pose of supplication - a child's call for love? Everything is in the eyes, which don't make up a hollowness, but seem to glance with energy and life...
A theme is loneliness and isolation. The womb seems to be connected to another one at the far right. Maybe we are all trapped in our own little worlds? However, I think it is an optimistic vision. The womb seems to be disintegrating around itself and 'flowering'. With the baby association - we all do grow up...
There is, I also think, a further association with evolution. There is a fossil quality about the drawing and another thing one might suggest is that it is caught in amber. The skeleton also has a further association in art history - a memento mori. I think there is a compromise between life and death that is going on here - a sort of ressurection.