Cow Staring at You
1998
30" x 40"
This body of work of animals investigates the relationship between humanity and nature, particularly the inability to get a true understanding of the consciousness of one another. While we as humans can understand that animals have minds and personalities unique to them, we have no way to communicate our particular lived experiences to the other. Using the idea of the eye as the window to the soul, these images focus on the gaze between the subject and viewer seeking to bridge that divide.
charley friedman, copyright