1. Which of the artist's many technical choices are of interest to you and why?
I love his choice to use very formal private area's, and added elements of surrealism, with the alpaca's throughout the series of images. Koekkoek's tribute to the old myth of alpacas sneaking into homes after the owners left was so playful. Its a turn at what happens when no ones looking similar to how toy story works and it allows for a playful visual to this Andean mythology.
2. What do you believe are the artist's conceptual work and/or thematic intentions?
I think that he was trying to pay tribute to an old mythology that is very playful. these images are unique in the fact that these alpacas are all genuinely just hanging out and existing in these spaces practically undisturbed. Obviously with traces or in the environment one would normally expect to see a person and not an alpaca.
3. How do you personally respond to these choices and intents?I think that they are very comical and weirdly disorienting in a good way. They are just not what you'd expect to see in these environments and allow for a different take on how people thought about what occurred when they were not present. People normally think about what occur's when ones not around, I think the way its presented as a calendar is good simply because of how comical the series is.
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