Thursday, April 24

Gary Larson lives in the Wall

Staring right back at me as I looked out the kitchen window this morning was a face that could only have been created by Gary Larson. It had been there in the Great Wall, unnoticed, for weeks. We humans have a tendency to anthropomorphize (the attribution of human characteristics or behavior to a god, animal, or object, metric) just about everything we see, but I don’t know how often we do it in the style of a particular artist. Now I will have to find more. An excellent article on Larson’s career is found here. I just ordered his There’s a hair in my dirt! A worm’s story. Shows you where I come from.

Postscript: I got the book. It’s a hoot! Highly recommended for those who love wildlife and would like to understand how to deal with it. One of Larson’s best!

3 comments:

Susan Hurley-Luke said...

That's amazing!! Great shot! Unfortunately the link didn't work. If Larsen is still alive, maybe you should send this shot to him.

Glad you are back.

Susan Hurley-Luke said...

Yep, Wikipedia says he is still alive, anyway

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Larson

Tom Hurley said...

I fixed the link.