Baby Chimpanzee

1992
38 x 52 cm

(Chinese text) Chimp sits hunched forward, curious, examining me, while I examine him... and thus we spent a happy day together.

We made may trips to the zoological gardens with teacher Cheng Shan-Hsi.He taught us that we must sit and watch animals for a long time and learn to understand their body language, before putting brush to paper. And so it was that we spent the whole day watching these baby monkeys. They too however were fascinated by what we were doing, and periodically we had to show them the progress of their portraits, which they appeared to study with serious interest.


© Natasha Sutta