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An interesting free-form leporello filled with drawings of gorillas and monkeys in various shapes, sizes and styles. This 13ft homage to the animal kindom is spread out across assorted page colors and with care taken in the sequencing of the works. About the subject of this leporello this Mexico-based artist has said:
"Once I read that gorillas are genetically closer to humans than zebras to horses; that is why I started portraying them. Then, as I did them, as a therapy or as some inefficient or meditative practice, I started discovering amazing similarities between cynocephaly, orangutans, guenus, giant baboons, catarrhinis and my own parents, brothers, aunts, grandparents and cousins. My aunt Amalia was almost identical to a rhesus macaque and Rogelio, my father, was without a doubt the closest thing to a baboon. I sometimes dream I am a silver furred gorilla."
20 double-sided pages, individually 9" x 8", and when unfolded13ft 4".
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