Fear of the Familiar By Royce Chun (04/22/10 17:33:51)
I found the article's discussion on an artist's fear of pets very interesting. The article talks about how sentimentality affects and artist’s work and how wild animals are much preferred over domesticated animals. One of the reasons for the fear is that the public may take an artist’s work with a domesticated less seriously because it seems more like play than work. This is because a relationship already exists between and owner and a pet. This relationship can cause the domesticated animals to act much differently to their wild counterparts and are very likely to act according to how their human has raised them. Work with wild animals are preferred because the work would be inherently more innovative since the animals would have their own self-constructed way of going about their lives.
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