The donkey and the wolf, first canvas of the diptych, work by Robert Bibeau

The donkey and the wolf (diptych)

Acrylic diptych. The artist started this work by pressing the two canvases against each other, creating texture and shapes on each; his imagination took over from there.

The donkey and the wolf: two vertical canvases side by side, each bearing a raised mass of blue, ochre and white run through with black drips and strokes, on a pale grey ground.

Free association

Woodcut: a wolf bent over an ass lying on its back, holding one of its legs, against a sketchy landscape of hills and grass. — The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484

Alas, poor fool and wretch that I am! What had I to do with the craft of surgery, since I am a slayer and a butcher? And I knew well enough that the ass and his like were appointed to be my prey and meat…