As a kid, I was such an animal. When my mom called up the stairs for dinner time, I would charge down the hallway like a rhinoceros, round the corner and swing along the banister like a monkey, and finally jump down from the seventh stair-step like a leopard. I had a little ongoing game where each night I would attempt to jump from one step higher. My dad had a little ongoing nickname he teased me with, Gorilla. And on numerous occasions, he would try to convince me I was born from gorillas, and adopted.
I gave the animal idea another thought the other day. If you could come back to life, reincarnated as another animal, what would you choose? Or perhaps, if you were an animal in your previous life, what do you think you were? Here are my 3 answers:
Number 1:
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| A wolf, pencil crayon texture and blending |
Stay tuned for my two remaining answers. What are yours?
Chloe Golightly
...on holiday.
chloelnlam@gmail.com
This series is dedicated to my best friend, the greatest zoologist in the world, Bdon Licata-Salmonella)
A pit viper: Experience infrared vision and olfaction in a way never thought of before.
ReplyDeleteAny cephalopod: For obvious reasons including superpowered camouflage, malleability and who wouldn't want an ink pack to escape enemies?!
The immortal jellyfish: Its damn near impossible to imagine what life is like for them. And to potentially do it forever!? Yeah. Yeah. Def.
Also, wow... That is an incredible drawing. You're an artist Lam. Never stop.