animals
Martin Usborne ‘The silence of dogs in cars’
“I was once left in a car at a young age. I don’t know when or where or for how long, possibly at the age of four, perhaps outside Tesco’s, probably for fifteen minutes only. The details don’t matter. The point is that I wondered if anyone would come back. It seems trivial now but in a child’s mind it is possible to be alone forever.
Around the same age I began to feel a deep affinity with animals – in particular their plight at the hands of humans. I remember watching TV and seeing footage of a dog being put in a plastic bag and being kicked. What appalled me most was that the dog could not speak back. It’s muteness terrified me.
I should say that I was a well-loved child and never abandoned and yet it is clear that both these experiences arose from the same place deep inside me: a fear of being alone and unheard. Perhaps this is a fear we all share at some level, I am not sure…”
- Martin Usborne
Playlist: Matta ‘Release The Freq’
Kim Holm (creator): “it’s a fascination of the deer and their majestic appearance in combination with different human views on nature in a slightly humoristic way. The concept might be too weakly communicated to be fully explainable, but it was intended to work more like a tease or humoristic comment. The “stats” are simply individual info on each animal, based on imaginative hunting data.”
Matta - Release The Freq from Kim Holm on Vimeo.
Extraordinary. Full screen it please…
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Buffon’s Beasts
“The plates below are from a 1753 work called ‘Collection des Animaux Quadrupèdes’ which forms part of an enormous 36-volume series (’Histoire Naturelle’) issued over a forty year period by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon.”
Old Blue
