Holy Cow

framed - 66 x 66cm - price £315
unframed - 52 x 52cm - price £245

Anyone who has ever visited India will know that cows are everywhere, just wandering the streets, eating cardboard boxes or flowers off stalls - and generally getting in the way and making a nuisance of themselves ...but they are sacred to Hindus, hence the title of this piece.   The beasts look nothing like a European cow - more like an emaciated Biblical ox, with a strange hump on their necks and they usually have long, dangerous horns - which makes squeezing past them on narrow alleyways extremely risky.   The horns are also sometimes decorated with tinsel, or painted in garish colours.   It's a cow, Jim, but not as we know it!  
image and text © Mary-Clare Buckle

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