Rabbit

Sophie Zhang UG student exhibition

Reception: April 20, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
April 20, 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.
April 21, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
April 22, 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.
April 23, 9:00 - 11:00 a.m., 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

Why select a rabbit? Somehow all the forces inherent to us as humans are so similarly projected onto a rabbit - a compelling but nonexistent innocence, survival constructed by our inherent natural gifts - body and limb and brain. Rabbits and we are both vessels through which power and violence move like shadows. Therefore, is Rabbit to Us as We are to Earth, or to the universe?

There is a reality in which all of humanity’s answers to these rhetorical questions can be combined into a common thread, but the rabbit still escapes us. Though we may be compelled to live through the eyes of the rabbit, we can never truly do so. We can only use them as we would a clay vessel - a self portrait. This series tells the story of that portrait.