I know, I know, I'm posting like crazy here. Anyway... you know me, reading political articles everywhere, and I saw one where the Republican party was really very much shown as an elephant. Well, it
is an elephant... sort of....
Anyway, this got me thinking about elephants. Real elephants. And I remembered that about two months ago I had seen snippets of a documentary about elephants who were artists. For real. They liked to paint, and they made their own artwork, painting with paintbrushes held at the end of their sensitive trunks. This documentary I saw small parts of showed us a female elephant, named Hong or Heng or Cheng or something, who was so good that her artwork was exhibited at a big and prestigious London gallery. The funny thing was that the critics, who were invited to see her exhibition, were only told that the paintings were by 'Hong' (or whatever her name was), not that Hong was an elephant! And they judged, praised and criticized her artwork just as if she had been a human artist, which, of course, they thought she was!
Well, I decided to try to find this elephant on YouTube. I don't think I succeeded, but I found
this video of a painting elephant instead. You've got to watch it. Seriously.
Ann
