
Acrylic on 300gsm cold press paper, 790mm x 935mm
I have always loved animals. Deeply. Even the field mice. They all have a place and a purpose, just as we humans have ours. And behind every life form – even those supposedly subservient beings we are taught to regard as pests - there is a life that wants to live.
LEFSON: “The pig walked slowly towards the canvas and made a few equally slow, short stroke sin black. A few moments later she returned to do one last stroke in the yellow paint. When she made the yellow dot perfectly positioned within the black circle-like ‘head’, I stopped her immediately. In the final second, the artwork had been from transformed the seemingly mundane artwork into an extraordinarilyMasterpiece! If we change the way we look at things, the things that we look at, change. Just like a mouse..'
