I've been working on an etching series featuring animals being stalked by human shadows alluding to the deadly fate that they face daily in the human world.
By experimenting with textures and different acid resists I was able to achieve the eerie atmosphere in the prints that define the series.
This series was created with a mixture of effort to tap into my most gut-wrenching feelings about the plight of non-human animals in a human world as well as hints of satisfaction that I am finally dealing with political issues in my artwork that deeply matter to me.
It's not always easy to deal with deeply emotional and/or political issues when my muse is calling but again it's not very satisfying for me to skip lightly on the surface with little to say about what's down deep. I wonder how many other artists deal with this struggle.
UPDATE: The Huffington Post has been running a series of articles on a new book by Jonathan Safran Foer
called Eating Animals. As Huff Po contributor, Dr. Andrew Weil, puts it, "Foer makes it clear that factory farming is the exceptional human activity that debases and destroys everything it touches: land, people, communities, and most of all, the innocents at the nexus, animals."
