When I create art with animals as the main theme, I enter the folds of an ancient tribe. The oldest art in the world contains animal figures. Cave paintings in Spain and France, Native American pictographs and Egyptian hieroglyphics depict animals as part of everyday life and also as sacred symbols. Europeans in the middle ages compiled illustrated books called bestiaries that spoke to the spiritual and magical qualities of animals. Myths and legends inspired by animals became part of a spiritual framework. They helped our ancestors grapple with those eternal questions we are still asking, ‘Who am I? Why am I here? Where am I going?’