"Contemplation (Chimpanzee)"

Graphite pencil on paper

6 x 15

through

The Bennington Center for the Arts

www.benningtoncenterforthearts.org

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Selected for the 2010 "Art of the Animal Kingdom XV" exhibit.

At the Bennington Center for the Arts in Bennington, Vermont

Last summer I spent the day at the Zoo gathering reference of the animals and this chimpanzee was just sitting there for about two hours. It had this look of concentrating with all its might, trying to discover the answer to problems of the world. Well I don’t know if the chimpanzee ever discovered the answer to its question and if it did it’s keeping the answer to itself but I left the zoo knowing I was going to draw that moment. The long composition on the drawing I felt was necessary to illustrate the depth of the chimpanzee’s contemplation.