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From @amymditto_fineart “I spent a lot of time staring at this piece last night… The story behind “Ghost” (©2016) is multifaceted and entangled with the name of my gallery. We get a lot of questions about the origins of the name. 1) I’m a gamer, and one of the classes in a game I play has a form that allows you to shift into a ghost wolf. 2) Years ago, I wound up inheriting a wolf-hybrid I named Wiley (Wile-E). Wiley was an awesome dog if a bit of a handful, but had passed away in 2015. He was my “ghost wolf”. 3) I’m a big fan of wolves. They’re a keystone species that are critical to the environments they occur in, and of course largely extirpated here in the southwest due to human intervention via predator control. Thus, until a few years ago, the only wolves left in NM were the ghosts of those that used to be. They were fading from the landscape. This last point was both the inspiration for the gallery name, and the piece. The wolf in this image is a female that was in captivity out at Wildlife West. I was fortunate enough to get to go to the park with a friend that volunteered to feed many of their rescued wildlife. One of the many highlights of this visit was getting to run with the wolves along the fence. The males were goofy and way too friendly to be releasable. (I’m not sure where they had been rescued from, but it’s not uncommon for people to think it’s a good idea to own wolves only to discover it’s not really a good idea, and this is a problematic situation for the animals which cannot be released into the wild due to their human-tolerant condition which endangers both them and us.) The females were far more standoffish, and stayed back from the fence in a separate enclosure. Every photograph I got of the boys was so derpy, like your domesticated dog with a big goofy grin and his tongue hanging out. But, the females looked much more like what you might imagine they look in the wild. I don’t remember what this girl was looking at, but she became my subject. They’re all in a zoo now, but she is gets to stalk in mountain meadow in my piece. I’m guessing they may be in a breeding program, so hopefully maybe her offspring can do it for real.
From Gaby… Every night, while lying in his moon shaped hammock, Stellique peers up through the skylight in his room at the infinite stars above him. He ponders his place in the universe and dreams of the day when he can sail among the heavens as a cosmonaut. Perhaps we should all spend a little more time appreciating the beautiful universe that surrounds our little planet. @gabsofphotos #stars #monsterinthemoon #monsterdecor #monstercosmonaut #cosmonaut #moondecor #albuquerqueartist
