Acrylic on canvas
150cm x 65cm
Imagine a giraffe. It spends 18 hours a day chewing the same leaf.
It has no cumulative culture, so it doesn’t dream of inventing a “Self-Driving Tree Ladder 2.0” — it just stretches its neck.
It also has no abstract language, so it can’t tell its friends about that time when it felt “a little out of place” in the herd.
And most importantly: it lacks meta-cognition. A giraffe never thinks, “Do my spots look fat in this light?”
Humans, on the other hand? We invented the internet, and now we spend hours debating climate change or mentally analyzing how to get off the doom-scroll ride.
Who is the clever one?
The giraffe stands tall, sleeping with its long neck stretched, while we lie awake, tangled in long, endless chains of thought. And yet, somehow, we like to believe it’s us.
let this upright thinker be a reminder to protect your peace.
This painting is available. Get in touch and let’s talk about making it yours.
Click here to Email me
This painting is part of the Almost Human series.
I love painting for this series because it calms me down, gets me into flow fast, and brings out a playful energy in me.
It’s meant to be playful — but not shallow.
We’ve all had moments of real connection with animals:
laughing at them, finding comfort in them,
maybe even experiencing feelings of love or the sadness of losing them.
We are nature, whether we like it or not.
We dress ourselves up and call it “civilized,”
but we’re not that far from the animals we hang on our walls.
Same instincts. Same impulses.
Different clothes.
I keep it playful because that’s how I get close.
But when the connection hits, empathy steps in — and everything change.
We love to feel superior…
and then we turn around and behave like “animals”.
Funny how we say “behaving like animals” — but when it’s the other way around, we never say they’re behaving like humans. Think about it. What is most likely to happen?
So yeah — welcome to Almost Human
Acrylic on canvas
150cm x 65cm
Imagine a giraffe. It spends 18 hours a day chewing the same leaf.
It has no cumulative culture, so it doesn’t dream of inventing a “Self-Driving Tree Ladder 2.0” — it just stretches its neck.
It also has no abstract language, so it can’t tell its friends about that time when it felt “a little out of place” in the herd.
And most importantly: it lacks meta-cognition. A giraffe never thinks, “Do my spots look fat in this light?”
Humans, on the other hand? We invented the internet, and now we spend hours debating climate change or mentally analyzing how to get off the doom-scroll ride.
Who is the clever one?
The giraffe stands tall, sleeping with its long neck stretched, while we lie awake, tangled in long, endless chains of thought. And yet, somehow, we like to believe it’s us.
let this upright thinker be a reminder to protect your peace.
This painting is available. Get in touch and let’s talk about making it yours.
Click here to Email me
This painting is part of the Almost Human series.
I love painting for this series because it calms me down, gets me into flow fast, and brings out a playful energy in me.
It’s meant to be playful — but not shallow.
We’ve all had moments of real connection with animals:
laughing at them, finding comfort in them,
maybe even experiencing feelings of love or the sadness of losing them.
We are nature, whether we like it or not.
We dress ourselves up and call it “civilized,”
but we’re not that far from the animals we hang on our walls.
Same instincts. Same impulses.
Different clothes.
I keep it playful because that’s how I get close.
But when the connection hits, empathy steps in — and everything change.
We love to feel superior…
and then we turn around and behave like “animals”.
Funny how we say “behaving like animals” — but when it’s the other way around, we never say they’re behaving like humans. Think about it. What is most likely to happen?
So yeah — welcome to Almost Human
