Photo © Colleen Plumb
The path to truth is a long and arduous road, traveled by the few who can withstand the slings of arrows and bows. It takes courage and strength to allow the myths to fall away and stand face to face with the cold heart of reality. Photographer Colleen Plumb set for on this path many years ago, looking to understand the relationship between wo/man and animal that we have inherited from our ancestors.
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“Then God said: Let us make* human beings in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the tame animals, all the wild animals, and all the creatures that crawl on the earth,” Genesis 1:26 decreed, creating a divide that would come to result in an oppressive hierarchy.
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In her first book Animals Are Outside Today (Radius, 2011), Plumb reflects on the intricately layered intersections between the animal and human world for better or, far more often, for worse. The origins of our stories, rituals, and symbols have been lost over time, creating dangerous space for opportunistic and predatory behavior fraught with disinformation and rationalizations.
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Photo © Colleen Plumb