Anne Harris

Uncle Fester

Inspired by: Shelley Reed, Predator/Prey (after Oudry)

oil on canvas

35” x 24″

2025

$600

Uncle Fester, named after the resident Black Vulture at the Trailside Museum in Milton, Massachusetts, is a silver gray oil painting on a black canvas. Inspired by Shelley Reed’s Predator/Prey (after Oudry) paintings, Reed brings the animals’ emotions to life with light and shadow. Isolating them onto separate canvases, a contrast is created between predator and prey. Who is who? This contrast exists in Uncle Fester. The black vulture, interpreted as predator, lives at the museum because someone misunderstood him. Vulnerable and unable to fly after being shot, the black vulture is the prey, leaving humans as the predator.

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Anne Harris

Porcupine Eclipse

single-channel HD video

02:16

2024

Beneath a canvas painted in the woods, I watched the solar eclipse. I perform with this canvas often to embody the death of a porcupine I found here. On April 8, 2024, I unintentionally created a camera obscura while wearing this painting. The sun and the moon entered, sharing the space inside with me during the eclipse. This video captures what I saw and heard.

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