The Blindman's Elephant, the Poacher's Elephant
mixed media assemblage
340 X 390 mm
by Dale Copeland, 1997
Collection of Lynne & Graeme Axten
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You've heard the old story of the group of blind men standing around an
elephant, trying to describe it within the limitations of what they could
feel, touch, know? ("It's a tree, it's a snake ....") The poacher sees only the ivory, only the money. |
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