/Katherine McGaughey
Katherine McGaughey
Other Kingdoms
Inspired by: Shelley Reed, Predator/Prey (after Oudry)
lino print
17″ x 21″ (framed)
2018
There is a moment between predators and their prey in which both animals appear to lock eyes and have a conversation, a moment that feels visibly decisive. Like Shelley Reed’s piece “Predator/Prey”, I am interested in this moment that only happens between a predator and its major prey species. In this linoprint of a stag and pack of wolves, the prey moves towards the predator, its brisk movement flushing nearby birds. A decision has been made between the animals, an exchange that feels ceremonial. In this interpretation both animals, not the predator alone,choose for the encounter to end with death.