Animals in Human Cages: Trading Places with the Wild
By Alex Ion
While art is always open to interpretation, it’s often the most apparent emotions that can be the most striking. Same goes for Mikel Uribetxeberria’s Animalia, a composite collection of fabulous photographs that creatively portrays wild animals in hollow, empty human settlements. Is the gorilla pondering how to escape extinction or the reindeer how to get on a first flight to the North Pole? Though calm and peaceful, none of the beautiful beasts seem to enjoy a day in the wild world of humans, but the stunning outcome is synonym with art. The art of domesticating the wild? [via Mikel Uribetxeberria]





