Cave Painting #22: Probably Is A Duck - Terry Brewer (Santa Fe, NM)

Cave Painting #22: Probably Is A Duck Terry Brewer (Santa Fe, NM) Mixed media on panel, 18” W x 24” H   Artwork: This image was inspired by the outrage caused by Elon Musk's and other’s alarming public use of the Nazi salute and the resulting spin claiming it was a Roman salute or just an innocuous gesture of love. Adolf Hitler is depicted wearing a Roman helmet ominously showered by an unseen dark cloud and flanked by three ducklings symbolizing the expression “If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it probably is a duck”. Artist Statement: While working as a volunteer in Nepal I made numerous treks in the Himalayas. As I traveled across the land, I was reminded how modernization, social upheaval and climate change was rapidly altering the fragile nature of the environment and culture. I pondered prehistoric depictions of now extinct species left by early humans and I imagined how a variety of our successors around the planet, in a possible not-too-dis