the “animal” series

House pets, stuffed bears, pyjama duckies - are among the first things that children learn to identify, articulate, and eventually read and write about. In this sense, animals are vital building blocks for the development of language. I was thinking about children's alphabet blocks and wanted to create animal photographs that would suggest the clear, broad markings of letters or numbers. When strung together and seen from a distance, these images transform into the lyrical curves and sweeps of an exaggerated text - akin to a child’s first sentence written on a large Chieftan tablet.

I also wanted to produce images that were fun and silly, that call to mind the quirky and delightfully skewered perspective of children.

Printed by Cone Editions Press (www.cone-editions.com) developers of the PiezographyBW printing process (www.piezography.com)
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