I honestly ask myself “What Would Serval Do?” a lot.
Egyptian
Game of Hounds and Jackals
Middle Kingdom, ca. 1814-1805 B.C.E.
A Gogotte Formation Fontainebleau, France
Of natural form, from the Oligocene (circa 30 million years ago), the rippling layers of concretions platting together to form a towering waterfall of sandstone, supported on stand.
235⁄8 x 13 x 61⁄8in. (60 x 33 x 15.6cm.). With stand: 251⁄2in. (64.8cm.) high.
"House Behind Trees", Jean Egger, 1928.
Jean Egger (Austrian, 1897-1934)
Located in the Air Massif of Niger are two of the largest animal rock petroglyphs in the world. Known as the Dabous Giraffes they have been dated to about 8,000BCE. While the artist will forever remain unknown, this area of Niger has over 900 similar carvings of animals and humans. The period of these glyphs (12,000-7,000BCE) was known as the Neolithic Subpluvial, a time when the Sahara was a much wetter savannah that stretched thousands of miles and could sustain animal and human life. The giraffes are carved into a sandstone outcrop and depict a large male and smaller female. Shifting desert sands possibly covered the glyphs for millennia before they were discovered in 1987.
Orpheus Returns from the Pursuit of Eurydice, Henri Martin
orb – oxbow lakes (everglades mix)
Fishermen’s Devotions, Étaples, 1920, Henry Ossawa Tanner
Anni Albers, Northwesterly, 1957, cotton, rayon, acrylic, 15 ¼ × 23 ¼ in. (38.8 × 59 cm)