Moose Riding

Moose riding in the Canadian Rockies is not a common sight. Even less common is traversing across the great white north only to stumble upon an evil bunny munching on a human arm.

This experience never happened to me, but damn if it doesn't make a fantastic and meaningful self-portrait!




Yep, one of my last finals was the dreaded self-portrait. When we were initially given the assignment my professor said it was to be a narrative portrait and for us to be as creative as possible.

Apparently, this is not what she meant.

Nuts to her. I'd rather show myself on a moose with a perplexed expression than a boring old "ooh, look at me...my background's all dark and I'm moody and deep and oOooOo I'm sooo depressed" style self-portrait. Which appeared to be the tone of other's work.

I would like to add that I was the only one in that class to use this much colour, and the only one to feature a bunny or moose in one of my pieces.

Take that conventionalism!