If zebras' stripes defend at all it is by visually confusing: alternating high-contrast moments doing the same thing in many different "ways" are hard to read, hard to get a handle on. Still, being active and close to the ground (with a low center of gravity) must help.
The angle of recline in this work is receding, in retreat, from one side and forward, aggressive, from the other.
Looking at its side is like looking at its shadow, an aspect highlighted in these photographs. The goo running down the faces repeats the patterns in the darkened parts of acrylic glass. It also repeats the woodgrain, itself highlighted by carving and rubbing with graphite. It is like a print of itself.
It aims upward but gets only lower.
I hear zebras are untameable.
Some things survive by doing the same thing many times over, by repeating, insisting, deflecting, redirecting, hiding in the open.
Pictured here in company with FU___U_____TAI. (on wall)