D o m i n i o n



The pig lay on the burrow dead

It weighed, they said, as much as three men

Ted Hughes


From our earliest recorded history, myths about edible animals and beasts of burden have occupied a curious place in the story of the human imagination. Whether it be the lamb that took the place of Isaac in Abraham’s sacrifice to God; the pig that lay on a burrow dead before slaughter in Ted Hugh’s View of the Pig; or the transformation of humans into animals and animals into humans in Ovid’s Metamorphosis; the relationship between man and animal – those who believe they have dominion over another – and those who do not – is a spiritual question which art and literature have been asking since human’s have been drawing in caves. 

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