Human 25/25

"Human" 2015 oil on canvas 36"x18"

It came out of a warm place and saw the light. It began to crawl and became an animal. They taught it to talk and walk on its hind legs, they made a man out of it. He attended their schools and learned to think the way they think, He became a learned man. He investigated the subject of highs and lows and paid dearly for his endeavors. He started to ponder about good and bad, right and wrong, birth and death. Religion was his master now. He got rid of the master and sought the answer for the question of what is “I”, he became a philosopher. He got tired of the searches and dropped them all. Under all the layers of his experience he discovered something he never thought of as valuable – a Human.