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Our Friend the Snake (2023) Drawing by Edwin Loftus

Pastel on Cardboard, 14x11 in
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  • Pastel on Cardboard
  • Dimensions Height 14in, Width 11in
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  • Categories Mythology
Meanwhile, on Earth. Various types of humans existed and went about their lives guided by their best friend among the animal spirits, Slitherus, the King of Serpents. Under the helpful guidance of Slitherus, humanity had spread over much of the Ice Age world. Their lives were short and hard, but Slitherus showed them how to gather roots, fruits and [...]
Meanwhile, on Earth. Various types of humans existed and went about their lives guided by their best friend among the animal spirits, Slitherus, the King of Serpents.
Under the helpful guidance of Slitherus, humanity had spread over much of the Ice Age world.
Their lives were short and hard, but Slitherus showed them how to gather roots, fruits and herbs and how to avoid being eaten or trampled or gored by the other large animals that dominated the planet.
Humans were small and timid and other creatures bullied them.
Then the Ice Age ended. And out of Eden, came Adam and Eve.
When Slitherus crawled to meet them, they saw a snake and it reminded them of Satan that came to them in the guise of a snake. They turned from him and paid him no mind.
Ignoring Slitherus, Adam accidentally stepped on his tail and surprised, Slitherus bit him on the heel. And then Adam chased him away.
This bothered the people, but Adam was large and strong and feared none of the animals that hunted and bullied the humans. Adam hunted and killed them and ate them and so did eve and their children.
The children of Adam married with the children of the people. They too learned to distrust the snakes and avoided them.
But humans became big and strong and from Adam learned the mastery of animals and their lives became better and longer.
Now, when snakes see humans, they hiss at them and crawl away.

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Edwin Loftus is an American painter and draftsman born in 1951. His interest in art began at the age of 4 when he decided to draw something real rather than working from his imagination. . As a child he excelled [...]

Edwin Loftus is an American painter and draftsman born in 1951. His interest in art began at the age of 4 when he decided to draw something real rather than working from his imagination. 

As a child he excelled at drawing and as a teenager he began to experiment with oil painting. In college, he took courses in art and art history and realized that true art had nothing to do with the quality of the drawing or painting, but that it had to have the ambition to push the boundaries and expand the visual experience. 

He also studied philosophy, psychology and history and quickly realized that it was just another art establishment trying to defend its elitist industry and reward system. Their skills were almost non-existent, they knew nothing about psychology, perception or stimulus response, and they were extensions of the belief system that made communism, fascism and other forms of totalitarianism such destructive forces in the world. They literally believe that art shouldn't be available to ordinary human beings, but only to an elite "sophisticated" enough to understand it. 

Edwin Loftus realized that the emperors of art had no clothes, but they were still the emperors. Gifted in art, he worked hard to acquire this skill. So he found other ways to make a living and sold a few artworks from time to time. For sixty years, many people enjoyed his works and some collected them. 

Today, Edwin Loftus is retired. Even if he sold all his paintings for the price he asked, "artist" would be the lowest paid job he ever had... but that's the way it is.  It won't matter to him after he dies. He just hopes that some people will like what he does enough to enjoy it in the future. 

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