Amy Stein - Domesticated (2008)
Artist’s statement:
“Within these scenes I explore our paradoxical relationship with the wild and how our conflicting impulses continue to evolve and alter the behavior of both humans and animals. We at once seek connection with the mystery and freedom of the natural world, yet we continually strive to tame the wild around us and compulsively control the wild within our own nature. Within my work I examine the primal issues of comfort and fear, dependence and determination, submission and dominance that play out in the physical and psychological encounters between man and the natural world. Increasingly, these encounters take place within the artificial ecotones we have constructed that act as both passage and barrier between domestic space and the wild.”
Photo of the Day: Sailfish hunting a sardine bait ball
Photo by: Peter Allinson (Kingsville, Maryland); 35 miles off the coast of Cancun, Mexico
Ken Fox’s Wall of Death Show by Bill M on Flickr.
(Source: iraffiruse)
JUBA - 24 hours after South Sudan declared independence from the north, spectators watch the country’s team play in its first international soccer match, at Juba football stadium, July 10th, 2011.
From Welcome to South Sudan, by Sarah Elliott
“Could be worse.”
I’ve been compulsively quoting this line a couple times a week since high school.
It works on so many levels.
(Source: becauseyoucomenaturally)
Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686-1755)
Leopard, 1741.
