Cartesian Logic is a painting portraying a laboratory rat as a mere mechanical device used to assist human development and discovery.
 

Cartesian Logic

Cartesian Logic is a painting portraying a laboratory rat as a mere mechanical device used to assist human development and discovery. It was meant as a cynical portrayal of the excesses of experimentation in animals, especially rats and mice, which I had learned was often redundant in experiments.

  • Watercolour on paper

  • 10”x15”

  • (1992)

Exhibited with the Lakeshore Association of Artists in Montreal, PQ (1992); Yves Laroche Gallery in Montreal (2004); exhibited and sold at Matthew Namour Gallery in Montreal, PQ (2016).