The Jungle Kingdom

The Jungle Kingdom is a fanciful portrayal of animal life that the artist came to know during a five-year period of his childhood when he lived in the Peruvian jungle.

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There is the sense is of the hierarchy of life, with the resolute crocodile seated at the bottom, holding up the commonplace bull frog, along with two playful lizards; above them is a snake who happens to have two snake-eating birds resting atop him, then a playful monkey, and at the pinnacle a chicken, who is in reality the snake’s food. The animals coexist within their ecosystem, joyfully accepting the inevitability life, predator or prey, eating - or being eaten.