Elephant Love Carved in Stone

by Zsanan Studio

Title

Elephant Love Carved in Stone

Artist

Zsanan Studio

Medium

Mixed Media - Paintings To Photo-art, Digital Mixed Media

Description

“Elephants Unspoken" Love Carved in Stone


“Elephants Unspoken” is a visual narrative about respect for life. Created here in my studio in Asheville, North Carolina, this piece actually began as a PHOTO! Each abstract image in this series translated to a pen-and-ink drawing, was photographed and then digitally-rendered. This image invites your interpretation.

Each tells of our wider identity- our common interests as inhabitants of Earth. Like human beings, elephants have a complex consciousnesses, heightened awareness, and emotions. They relate to one another - and to us. This series hopes to highlight an unspoken understanding about the dignity of life- that “quality of being” that is worthy of respect.


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SYMBOLISM: As a series, “Elephants Unspoken" features bold, figurative abstract images in distinct shapes or black and white expressions symbolizing distinct polarities. It asks if- within the darkness and light- there can exist space for possibility and the full array compassionate perspectives.

THE BACKSTORY: I was spurred on by a chance encounter of a photo- which was, for me, grotesque. I happened on the photo of a decapitated elephant head, trunk and all - sawed off, tusks tossed on to a pile of other tusks near by. That prompted this series.

When, in 2019, the USA lifted the ban on importing sport-hunted elephant parts as trophies, along with any number of artists, had something to say. How can we work to remedy an underworld of impulse?




RESEARCH & NOTES:
“A lot can happen in the lifetime of an elephant. Those in the wild grow up among an extended family herd of mothers, daughters, aunts, and cousins. They are led by a matriarch—the oldest and wisest female in the herd. Together, they travel many miles a day, across grasslands and savannahs. They create waterholes shared by other animal species. They play, they adapt, and they mourn. They are sentient beings with remarkable memories and social structures that mimic our own.” Elephants.com.


** "Africa loses some thirty-thousand (30,000) elephants to ivory poaching every year. An elephant is taken down on the African continent once every fifteen (15) minutes." (Pinnock, “The Last Elephants.”)



I donate 95% of the proceeds from the purchase of Elephant Note Card 10-packs to raise awareness and create change with compassion.
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Research Links:

http://www.savetheelephants.org/new-donate-page-US/
https://www.elephants.com/
Live camera https://www.elephants.com/#elecam

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September 25th, 2019

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