"Quagga"
by ChrisGoodwin
Traditional Artist
17 years ago
ink, then digital. 2007.
Donkeys and zebras are more closely related to each other
than either are to horses. And no other creature made this
point better than the quagga, which had visual attributes of
both. It was an exceedingly beautiful animal that is unfortunately
now extinct - because human beings are idiotic creatures, as
a whole. The last known quagga died in the Amsterdam Zoo,
August 12, 1883.
I know that there are programs operating to "bring back" the quagga
by selective breeding with zebras, but this will produce merely zebras
without stripes :P The quagga is gone. Anyway, hence the slight loopy
50's mad science/sci-fi vibe here, imagine a wavery Mars Attacks
theramin in the background. Also, the N.E.R.D. allusion.
Donkeys and zebras are more closely related to each other
than either are to horses. And no other creature made this
point better than the quagga, which had visual attributes of
both. It was an exceedingly beautiful animal that is unfortunately
now extinct - because human beings are idiotic creatures, as
a whole. The last known quagga died in the Amsterdam Zoo,
August 12, 1883.
I know that there are programs operating to "bring back" the quagga
by selective breeding with zebras, but this will produce merely zebras
without stripes :P The quagga is gone. Anyway, hence the slight loopy
50's mad science/sci-fi vibe here, imagine a wavery Mars Attacks
theramin in the background. Also, the N.E.R.D. allusion.
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I think she'll like, this is very science fictiony :3
Beautiful work!
Saving my family and closer friends, personally I hope I'm as forgotten about as possible. That's my idea of resting in peace.
So actually they are just "Zebras without stripes" and no they are not wholly gone.
Now that thats out of my system I have to say I actually really like this picture, the composition is classy and it reminds me vaguely of the vitruvian man... except ya know with a quagga and no dangly bits.
On "breeding back".
On the Quagga Project.
They will not show up until the next book but will play a promanate role in that book.
Z.
Quagga is one of the countless victims of the selfish acts of the savage beast known as man.
Maybe one day Quagga gallops free on the African soil again... Long after the time for us was up.