Through Their Eyes / The Last Witness
The Last Witness
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Only 100 numbered First Editions available in this size. Once the First Editions are gone, the numbered, certified and embossed release will not return.
- Individually numbered print
- Certificate of Authenticity
- Embossed authentication
The Story Behind the Artwork
Gorillas are close enough to us — in expression, in family structure, in the weight of a held gaze — that it’s difficult to look at one and feel entirely separate from what it sees. In this piece, that gaze is turned outward, across a forest reduced to logs and stumps and the kind of quiet that follows machinery rather than birdsong. The gorilla is not posed as a victim. It is positioned as exactly what the title suggests: a witness. Something has happened here, and something remains to register it. There’s a difference between an image that asks for sympathy and one that asks for attention, and this piece is built for the second. The forest behind the gorilla isn’t a backdrop; it’s the subject the animal is watching, the same way we are watching the animal. Two kinds of witnessing, one frame.
5% of every sale from the Through Their Eyes collection supports wildlife conservation — set aside and donated annually at year end.
