Fear of Familliar
By Michael Martinez (06/06/10 22:25:45)
In the Article Fear of the Familiar the author, discuss the desire for the post modern movement to move away from the use of common animals such as house pets in the use of artistic collaborations. Instead the movement focuses on the use of wild animals or untamed animals since they do not imprint from their owners.

While i find this to be an intriguing point of view i don't entirely agree with it. The main push for the abandonment of pets for collaboration is because they are familiar. Hence the title of the article. Because of their association with humans they no longer have their natural instincts.

However i feel that all animals have some form of familiarity to them. by the very fact that humans exist it would be impossible to assume that no animal has ever been effected in some part by humans and their interactions with their environments as a whole. So not only have animals been effected by humans, they have also been studies. by studying them we know how they act and their behavioral tendencies. all together i think these factors make wild animals more familiar than not.

That is how i feel about that mentality that wild animals lack a predictability than house pets or more common animals.

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