a mixed media drawing i made after a field trip visiting a classmates alpaca farm outside of zanesville.
I've studied ancient Latin American history and learned about the important usage of alpacas in the Andean and Chilean mountains, when certain indigenous peoples would use these animals for carrying supplies up narrow, treacherous cliffs, and these animals were used for food, clothing, and their skeletons and body parts were made into practical things like instruments, tools, weapons, etc. But now after visiting the alpaca mill, it seems these animals have little purpose other than to make people wealthy for their fur and breeding purposes. The text around the alpaca image reads, "I wonder, if an animal had the ability to think abstractly, would it question the purpose of its existence? What would this Alpaca conclude? I don't know?"