Styfall – dropped GoPro camera snuffled by pig
Folks intent on other matters give an elegant proof of the law of gravity, and that pigs are curious, hungry creatures. Sorry, pigs, GoPro cameras are not edible.
Year: 2015
Well-being is a wallow
Husbandry once suggested that pigs think in herds and so find comfort in the press of crowds. For humans, crowds excite our discontent.and reminded of the cureless certainties of all our lives – toil, death and ignorance of our fate. Pigs and man alike need a private wallow for quiet study and meditation and so dispel the feelings of foreboding that arise in the crush and drift crowds.
A little cold pig-snouted breeze
Breezes in the moonlight are messengers showing us soft white billowing pigs in the clouds above – billowing pigs with ears of silk. And underneath the cotton-nightcap trees wanders a little cold pig-snouted breeze.
Christien Meindertsma and Pig 05049
In this TED Talk, Dutch artist Christien Meindertsma, author of “Pig 05049” looks at the astonishing afterlife of the ordinary pig, parts of which make their way into at least 185 non-pork products, from bullets to artificial hearts.
Once upon a time
Animals are a part of the human imagination, of humanity itself. We read our children stories of animals: “Once upon a time there was an old pig…” But pigs are not just vessels of deliciousness. Pigs are not beings that you can use as mere means. Pigs, and indeed all animals exist for their own reasons, they are not created for man.