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MICHAEL WEIGMAN

49▽

Lithograph

12" x 12"

2016

Focusing on the incident in which 49 animals, owned by Chihuahua goat herder Juan Pablo Hermosillo Sanchez, were eviscerated by an alleged chupacabra, this piece focuses on the duality of the ruthlessness of such a beast, behind what appears to be a malnourished exterior. Chupacabras, in many photographic images, have the appearance of a mangy, hairless dog, whose innocent look belies the atrocities it can create. The more fantastical interpretations state that the chupacabra has blood red eyes, a spiked spine, and fangs that create upside down triangle bite marks to drain blood from its prey. I find these additions to be an unnecessary physical interpretation of a more menacing inner rage of something that is misunderstood, yet dangerous in its own right--as manifested by the grisly backdrop (depicting the incident)--which is why I have chosen to forgo them in the current image.