Some Sort of Beast

40 x 30 cm
mixed media on paper
 
We recognise the animal when we see it, and think ourselves beyond what is undeniably there. The beast within and showing beastly behaviour is something that we are afraid to show. Anything that we do not recognise as human it seems must be labelled in this way. The link is always there, organic in the extreme. Though we do pretend it is absent with the so called civilisation and religion attempting to tame the wildness within. Housetrain and domesticate the animals that frightened us or we desired to eat. Embedded in our history, the beasts are dominated and yet feared. A beast is often seen as snarling, a danger and a threat to human life. Claws and fur and nasty eyes, predation intent in its savage mind. An untamed force, unleashed with wild abandon, a danger to us all. We are the beast of our own making that is ready to destroy it all.