I will be very interested in peoples critique of this image. I find myself personally liking the visuals that are more abstract in thought and less literal in interpretation. This one follows the camp of abstract but I will defend it as being a very successful visual interpretations of the submitted passage. So here is "Evolutionary Teething", Chapter Nine of the Book Passages Series. Enjoy, digest and comment. Thanks.
Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut:
Speaking of teeth: there have never been dentists on Santa Rosalia or any other human colonies on the Galapagos Islands. As would have been the case a million years ago, a typical colonist can expect to be edentate by the time he or she is thirty years old, having suffered many skull-cracking toothaches on the way. And this is more than a blow to mere vanity, surely since teeth set in living gums are now people's only tools.
Really, Except for their teeth, people now have no tools at all.
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I really like this one--you're right, it's a perfect visual represention of the passage, but not literal. Really well done, as usual...
Holley
OK meat on chain, creeeeeeepy. Upon closer inspection dentures, amusing, but still creeepy. Curious? If I look even closer will the incisors and canines be missing. Interesting to think of our teeth as tools. Very primitive. Very base. Did I mention creepy?
Creepy seems to be the word that comes to mind most, so far, from a few of the viewers. I do enjoy the hmmm factor that is seems to raise. Thanks Jane.
Holley, Thanks for the comment. Thanks especially for the nice one you left on my CricketToes article. I respect and love your art so I always enjoy your thoughts.
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