David Yarrow Scottish, b. 1966
The Senator, 2023
Archival Pigment Print
Available in two sizes:
Standard - 52 x 71 inches
Large - 71 x 99 inhces
Standard - 52 x 71 inches
Large - 71 x 99 inhces
Edition of 12 plus 3 artist's proofs
Signed, editioned and dated on bottom
The Senator 2023 This is such a simple portrait of Elmo - a Western lowland Silverback gorilla. The photograph makes no claim to be anything else than a facial study....
The Senator
2023
This is such a simple portrait of Elmo - a Western lowland Silverback gorilla. The photograph makes no claim to be anything else than a facial study. The flat lighting helps elevate the textural detail, and its simplicity is its strength. With less facial hair - especially on the forehead than a mountain gorilla and narrower bone structures- they look more like humans than their cousins from higher altitudes. They are very firmly on the anthropologist’s road map.
The photograph could be a painting by a Dutch master, and the gorilla himself reminds me of some people I know - mostly people in authority. There is a calm wisdom, a steely fortitude and a whiff of sovereignty. He is a Senator - a man representing his people.
2023
This is such a simple portrait of Elmo - a Western lowland Silverback gorilla. The photograph makes no claim to be anything else than a facial study. The flat lighting helps elevate the textural detail, and its simplicity is its strength. With less facial hair - especially on the forehead than a mountain gorilla and narrower bone structures- they look more like humans than their cousins from higher altitudes. They are very firmly on the anthropologist’s road map.
The photograph could be a painting by a Dutch master, and the gorilla himself reminds me of some people I know - mostly people in authority. There is a calm wisdom, a steely fortitude and a whiff of sovereignty. He is a Senator - a man representing his people.