Elephants We Must Never Forget: New Paintings Drawings and Prints by Sue Coe

Sue Coe... Blind Children Feel an Elephant (2008, Oil on canvas, Signed and dated, lower right, and titled, lower left). From the exhibition Elephants We Must Never Forget: New Paintings Drawings and Prints by Sue Coe, October 14 - December 20, 2008 at Galerie St. Etienne in New York, NY. "...Mystery and ambiguity lie at the heart of all great art. It is not, in the end, what we know about the elephants that gives Coe's latest paintings their haunting power, but what we can never know about these grand but alien creatures. Nonetheless, the paintings reflect Coe's belief that we humans have a community of interest with the elephants and that we and they share a common fate. Indeed, our very survival as a species may depend on recognizing our interconnectedness with all living beings, and abandoning our attempts to coerce nature into compliance with our whims." Also... Footage of Topsy (Flash Video 00:24) being electrocuted in 1903.