Clearly, though, she had lost her fear of humans. Not very common, though not like garbage bears, which are everywhere. She would show up a couple times a week looking for leftovers. Grey or Gray Wolf, Timber Wolf if you prefer, a young female with a litter in a den about two miles upstream, according to the campground guy. Coming into Tok, she said, "Weren't we here last night?" At that point we agreed to keep going north, and a while later we pulled into a campground to find a picnic table and take a break.Ī wolf was in the campground. I didn't say anything as she is notoriously dyslexic when it comes to directions, and I was curious as to how long it would take for her to notice that the terrain looked familiar. The next morning my companion took the wheel and made a wrong turn on the highway. We drove through Tok that evening, and camped. That might not happen today, in the age of paranoia. What are the chances of that? But so it was. To raise his suspicions further, our ID showed us having the same birthday, although different years. I'm hunting wabbits!" - and we arrived at the border guard's station in barely concealed gales of laughter. Driving along the Alaska Highway in the Yukon, north of Kluane National Park, she turned to me just before the border crossing and intoned in a perfect Elmer Fudd voice, "Be vewy, vewy quiet. This isn't my normal life pattern, but hey, it was love. I was on a road trip with a woman I'd met three weeks earlier. My collection of wild wolves is woefully small, but here's one - a really close shot from two decades ago. Animals whose forms are slip cast from molds made by the artists, or molds made from mass-produced rabbit forms meant for popular ornaments or even food forms, may stand as a critique of the empty sentimentality of popular culture, or contemporary attitudes to almost anything.Īrtists who will appear in this exhibition thus far include: Kelly Connole, Cynthia Consentino, Elissa Armstrong, Jason Walker, Ayumi Horie, Wesley Harvey, Ann Roberts, Max Lehman, and Caroline Douglas " It may be seen pursuing human-like activities, wherein it, of course, is a stand-in for the human condition. In the first, the rabbit appears rendered more or less naturalistically. The rabbits in this exhibition fall very roughly into two categories. Thus Bugs Bunny always gets the better of Elmer Fudd, and Peter Rabbit of Farmer Brown. Its ability to survive and adapt, has led to seeing it as a character both clever and wily, not to say sneaky. Thus the rabbit’s talent for breeding frequently and prodigiously lies behind its symbolic meaning as a talisman of both fertility and promiscuity in earlier western art. Some of the meanings exhibit the limits of human understanding of zoology. From the Pewabic Site: "When the rabbit or its close cousin the hare appears in the literature, religion, and art of cultures all over the world its form may hold numerous and contradictory meanings.
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