Seafood, meat, and us: it’s written in the stars. Well, not exactly, but fish and livestock have been a part of lives for so long that we’ve named some of the constellations after them. Not only do we look at a bunch of stars in the night sky and see a similarity between their patterns and the shapes of a few aquatic and farm animals but we also attach certain attributes associated with those animals to people born under those groups of stars, known as constellations. Whether or not you…
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Livestock Inspired Art
The red junglefowl- Edward Neale – Hume and Marshall, Game Birds of India, Burmah and Ceylon (1879–1881) Art is a reflection of life. Farm animals, like goats and chicken, that we raise for food have been a big part of our life since we began to domesticate them a few thousand years ago. Hence, understandably, they often appear in our art and craft. Let’s look at some works of arts in which hens, roosters, chicks and goats play the role of the artist’s muse. 1. Cockfighting Cockfights are banned in…
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