Highlights of the Academy collection of Seton Drawings and Paintings
Lobo Rex Currumpæ by Ernest Thompson Seton
ALL#0538 Reproduction. Various versions, but the first use of the image likely from Wild Animals I Have Known (1898), pg. 55 in an early edition. This was Seton’s formal portrait of Lobo, King of Currumpaw. He Latinized Lobo’s name to give the wolf proper respect and dignity he deserved.
The Three Little Pigs by the Editor
Once there were three little Suidae who set out to consume all the world’s resources for themselves. Seeing catastrophe ahead, Lobo, a representative of Nature, after being denied ingress, commenced demolition of the pre-industrial structure of the first of the three. Lobo continued to a second location where he used climate change storms to blow down the Capitalist’s house. Lobo went to the final bit of choice real estate (of Pig 3) which was constructed out of AI, quantum computers, crypto, and nano-plastics. This didn’t go too well for the wolf who, uttering an expletive, “….it!” fell into a big data processing center for reassignment. This Pig looked around at a world devoid of Nature and pronounced it good.
The End. (Really the end if it goes this way.)
Wikipedia offers other versions of the pig story but to me these seem dated.
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