The Catch
1981-84
Plaster, linseed oil, abd graphite
134.6 x 548.6 x 342.9 cm
Looking down from the mountain into a humid and dense jungle, I focus my attention deeper and deeper into the forest. Shifting like vapour, I stop to watch a band of cheetahs feasting on the prey they had just caught. Their catch of meat must be about 50 times more than what they themselves could eat.
A group of hunters stalking close by spy the cheetahs preoccupied with their feast. Taking out their arrows, the hunters stand close to where they are grouped and begin killing off the animals. After every animal is dead, the hunters start to tear off the cheetahs’ limbs and gorge on the animals’ insides, as well as eating the food the cheetahs had left behind. The catch has now accumulated into a feast about 100 times larger than what the hunters could manage to digest.
Shifting further into the jungle, another hunter takes out an arrow from his sack and aims it at the centre of a tree’'s foliage, wherein another cheetah is trapped and trying to get loose.
1981-84
Plaster, linseed oil, abd graphite
134.6 x 548.6 x 342.9 cm
Looking down from the mountain into a humid and dense jungle, I focus my attention deeper and deeper into the forest. Shifting like vapour, I stop to watch a band of cheetahs feasting on the prey they had just caught. Their catch of meat must be about 50 times more than what they themselves could eat.
A group of hunters stalking close by spy the cheetahs preoccupied with their feast. Taking out their arrows, the hunters stand close to where they are grouped and begin killing off the animals. After every animal is dead, the hunters start to tear off the cheetahs’ limbs and gorge on the animals’ insides, as well as eating the food the cheetahs had left behind. The catch has now accumulated into a feast about 100 times larger than what the hunters could manage to digest.
Shifting further into the jungle, another hunter takes out an arrow from his sack and aims it at the centre of a tree’'s foliage, wherein another cheetah is trapped and trying to get loose.