I am roe deer
huile sur toile, 100×100 cm
Jacob von Uexküll, in his essay ‘Animal Worlds and Human World,’ shows that the forest ‘will not be grasped in its true meaning if we relate it only to ourselves… Its significance is multiplied a hundredfold if we do not limit its relations to the human subject alone but also include the animals.’ For there is no forest as an independent, objectively determined environment. The hunter’s forest is not the painter’s forest nor the roe deer’s. And if I am a roe deer here, it is not to see as the roe deer would, whose perception seems to be limited to blue and green, but rather to pursue the moment that precedes the fiery flash of its leap.”