:: 2009 :: 50cm x 150cm :: Markers on Cartridge Paper ::
Deer are a common sight in the cave art and sculpture of Palaeolithic Europe, and their antlers are often depicted with an inflation size. This was a very valuable part of the animal as the antlers could be used for a variety of tools, not least in the manufacture of spear-throwers, and the exaggeration is in line with the common expansion of the realism of the haunches of many animals - another valuable, meat-bearing part of the animal. In this drawing, I have expanded the antlers to the point where they become a winter tree, in keeping with an image from a dream that I had whilst preparing for the Modern Palaeolithic exhibition.
