Following this initial question was a lengthy exchange about the reasons why an artwork of this type should exist and the details surrounding its execution, which ended with this:
Here, now, is the (kinda) true story of the what's and why's and huh's?
My stepbrother is a newly minted biologist. Apparently, newly minted biologists need letters of recommendation. I’m not sure why, but it seems to be one of those immutable physical laws of the Universe. Recently he sent me a message. One of the fine folks who were supposed to give him a letter of recommendation turned out to be less fine than he had anticipated and by his account, forgot, disappeared off of the face of the Earth or suffered some other calamity. In any case, another person WAS able to give him a letter of recommendation on the fly. This gentleman, as I have had him described to me and as I have imagined him, is a freakish hybrid of dinosaur and man; a genetic experiment of such terrible consequence that he had no choice but to become a scientist himself in order to study and prevent, if he could, the same fate from befalling others. Eventually, after years of roaming the planet in search of meaning and understanding, this Dino Sapiens became a biologist whose interest, obviously, now lies in forest ecology where, while counting tree-rings, he can nibble at leaves and vegetation for sustenance. By all accounts, an amicable symbiosis (certainly a redundant phrase, but it sounds nice).
All lesser creatures shall bow in reverence and thanks to The Mighty V-REX, your lord, savior and writer of letters of recommendation! Behold!
The Mighty V-Rex
12 x 9 inches
2010, Graphite on paper
