flattened paper paste-ups

&

a fauna

2003 – 2011
from Robert:
Rain and snow makes figures in paper. An anthropomorphic vision, related to both the oldest strains in my work and to a current interest in pictographs and petroglyphs. I recall once, standing with a friend, looking at the small pilings of snow twenty feet above us left between the ridges on the sheet metal siding: like an army of marching rabbits, I said. She saw them of course, a moment of shared visionary excitement.
They're two series that have run into and over each other, the latter having taken over at present from the former, and consist of a variety of imagined and hybrid animals, often red-eyed. Paul Shepherd's numerous books are an ongoing inspiration, as is Bruce Chatwin's notion of a globally shared "animal style," from the Paleolithic caves forward (see Photographic Supplement)

in loving memory ♥
of Robert Seydel

ALL IMAGES ⓒ THE ESTATE OF ROBERT SEYDEL