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After Rousseau - Tiger

Oil on canvas - (65cm x 95cm)

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Below is an excerpt from a short story written by the artist - contact <postmaster@gordonart.co.uk> for more detail's

"A particular molecule moving at the speed of light entered his consciousness as an image. It contained picture of this thing pouncing; launching itself into the air. A magnificently sized yellow and orange and white and black striped creature, with huge front teeth and elevated front paws with equally huge claws, and this spectacle was about to strike him. It was to assail him by habitual manner. It was to claw his back then sink teeth into neck, Muffy’s neck. It would be decisive, a quick kill, unless Muffy could do something rapid. And so in a continual movement he dropped. Drop both by intention, and then by using the helpful speed of gravity. He went into the water alongside. It was an immediate descent to then be momentarily obscured by that water in what would turn out to be shoulder high to him. Water that was courted by another sanded feature adjacent to some long grasses which eventually joined the soiled slope, the ochre earth where only a short time ago he had descended in innocent comfort.

The relative slumber of the chubb nosed monster was naturally disturbed and reared up at him in an instant. They broke surface simultaneously. Head and shoulders of both Muffy and new monster now visible, moving upward they were into the air together from below that once liquid peace. Seeing this startled monster in these fractions of seconds sent what wits Muffy had remaining into another orbit.

The more colourful beast was now mid- air as it descended. Muffy’s watery companion continued to ascend, it was big. This browny- grey, leathery and blubbery mooncalf with yappy lips and huge nostrils mounted on top a powerful upper jaw matching a lower jaw for size and that joined the bulky shoulders with no apparent neck, opened- wide. This action revealed a cavernous mouth. It revealed a shocking pink fleshy area down to a throat the size of a camp- fire. And from hereabouts it now belched loudly, instinctively. And that is when the two beasts collided. One moving up, one moving down, smash!"