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Postnatural: Intense Animal Art for the 21st Century

1. Babble

2011, ink on paper, 38 x 50 inches

“It’s a very centralized composition. I wanted that in all these pieces. I want you to be able to get lost in the detail, and zone out into this meditative space,” said Boorujy. “That’s one reason I do them so detailed. If someone looks at a huge photograph of something, they think, ‘That’s cool,’ and move on to something else. We’re so visually sophisticated at this point that we recognize ‘photograph’ immediately. We process it so much quicker, because we’re bombarded by photographs. If you see something that’s photographic, but made by hand, you slow down. I want people to slow down.”

2. Fugue

2010, ink on paper, 38 x 50 inches

“If you make eye contact with an animal, it’s intense. If it’s not behind glass or something, they have a concept of what you are. You get a jolt,” Boorujy said. “Almost everything I draw is usually making eye contact. I’m interested in the gaze, in not observing something as if it was part of a diorama. I want the viewer to be part of it.”

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