&The Beautiful

The Damned

For Martha

the Last Passenger Pigeon

C1885 - 1st September 1914 at 1pm

Cincinnati Zoo

The Beautiful & The Damned

In contemporary society, the challenge is not only to consider the ways in which animals are currently treated and represented, but also to propose new ways of thinking about them. ‘The idea that civilisation is founded on a disregard for animals, a denial of their pain… comes as no surprise. The challenge is to devise those ways of looking which will most effectively bring the animal into the visibility that it is currently denied’

Steve Baker

Rats with Wings: GI Joe

The animal looks at us; we are naked before it.

Jaccques Derrida

The universe is composed of subjects to commune with, not objects to be exploited.

Thomas Berry

Day 1 18th February 2005

By Any Means Necessary

To the child there is no clear line separating objects from living things and whatever

has life, has a life very much like our own.

Bruno Bettleheim

Absolute Power

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over

the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over

every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

Genesis 1:26

Reservoir of Disease

Our current understanding of animals inner lives and sentience is profoundly out of

step with our treatment of them.

Johnathan Balcombe

What You Sow

Animists are people who recognise that the world is full of persons, only some of whom are

human and that life is always lived in relationship with others.

Graham Harvey

Mermaids Tears

The myth of the wild calls into question the privilege of being human at all.

Marina Warner

the Beautiful & the Damned

by

Suzy Sharpe 2014

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