I still think this looks better than you're giving it credit for. Looking at it on the computer screen, I noticed that both Madilyn Mei and the cover-art creatures seem to be alarmed by something in the empty lower left corner of the image. Is it the viewer? Or are they reacting to one another? Is Madilyn Mei alarmed by her own not-so-innocent stories?
Posted 1 year ago by rachel (Mother)
Hi, Ayat! This one looks particularly different on the website here and in real life. Some things I like about the way it looks here: I really notice the scratches and smudges on the "window"- just like at the zoo, where there's always someone's handprints on the glass. And the combination of "real" and "fake" that's so typical of zoo enclosures- the animals are real, of course, but sometimes the plants are fake, or the back wall is painted to show the animal's habitat. Here, the photobombing bird is very life-like, but the one in the back- is it real? is it painted? just like at the zoo, it's somewhere in between. And I ALWAYS think the animals at the zoo are watching me! (Remember the lioness that day that was watching so attentively while all the male lions were asleep? She was definitely deciding which tourist to pounce on :)
Posted 1 year ago by Mama
Hi, Ayat! It's so interesting to compare the actual sculpture with your photograph here. The lighting and backdrop make it look more like an artifact in a museum. Looked at this way, I take its "antiquity" for granted and start to wonder: which society produced this artifact (Mesopotamians?!), what was it for? Thanks for giving me another way of seeing your piece!
