Dylan Ayers-Moores

A secondary thought

Oil on canvas

16″ x 20″

2023

As I saw the deer struggling to make it to the other side of the road, face bloodied and legs mangled, I couldn’t help but wonder at what its life of possible majesty was like before. I wondered at what hidden beauties I was never able to see since now all that was in front of me was a struggling mass with death clearly in view. As cars drove by with me parked on the side I thought about all the others just like her that are passed by daily, their true majesty hidden, only to be a secondary thought.

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