The Oracle
2024-10
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The Oracle
A distinguished cat in a top hat, frock coat and cravat walking with a cane at the left, approaching a many-limbed creature at the right — part woman, part insect, crouched on jointed legs — to whom a fish is being offered. The creature is the Oracle.
A formal left-to-right meeting across an empty floor, the small upright figure at one end and the sprawling many-legged form at the other, with the offered fish at the exact centre. Onlookers are sketched faintly in the background.
Black ink over graphite on white. No colour.
The cat is finished in clean confident outline while the Oracle is still largely pencil with the limbs inked one at a time — the drawing stops where the design was still being decided.
Ink over pencil on paper.
No signature visible.
The oracle