"Vampire Bat" 2001
Acrylic on canvas 18" x 18"

Certain animals just inspire fear: jellyfish, spiders, bats. And perhaps scariest of all of them is the vampire bat, which certainly does the least to warrant that fear. Vampire bats, and bats in general, rarely come into contact with humans, and even more rarely attack. Here, I've show the bat against a spiral background of contrasting colors -- a background of man-made fear.