Twelve intensely rendered, colorful scenes of natural world violence and menace: Hyenas and chimps populate the pictures with dead and suffering impala, Wildebeest and gazelles. Some appear in repose-like agony among well-drawn dogweed blossoms, poppies and honeysuckle. Dismembering and disemboweling bring to mind Thomas Huxley's sensational descriptions of Darwinism. The gore seems too familiar, from images of war. The beautiful gestures and colors, plus one decorative pattern re-contextualize predation. While the apparent sadism of "Chimp Mother and Child" pushes the limits of what is natural the show as a whole draws a line between types of violence.
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