The Zoo II · Animal Patterns

I don’t think of myself as making art. I do what I do because I want to, because painting is the best way I’ve found to get along with myself.(Robert Rauschenberg)

Animal Patterns 1 – Giraffes

Since we humans have the better brain, isn’t it our responsibility to protect our fellow creatures from, oddly enough, ourselves?(Joy Adamson)

Animal Patterns 2 – Zebras

Animal Patterns 3 – Jaguar

… there is nevertheless a certain respect, a general duty to humanity, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants. We owe justice to men, and graciousness and benignity to other creatures… there is a certain commerce and mutual obligation betwixt them and us.(Michel de Montaigne)

Animal Patterns 4 – Leopard

Nature is what she is — amoral and persistent.(Stephen Jay Gould)

Animal Patterns 5 – Tiger

Animal Patterns 6 – Tiger Brothers

Animal Patterns 7 – Zebra Stripes I

Animal Patterns 8 – Zebra Stripes II

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.(Buckminster Fuller)