Fables house the petit abjet a, utilizing them as antagonist or villain: the exampled vice that the narrative tries to illustrate (as bad). Fables are ethical, persuasive- in which Protagonist walks among a personified world, intersecting these 'villains' in order to display the grand designs of "punishment and reward...stag(ing the) perennial cycles of greed and compassion" (Allen 14). A lesson is attended from this, thus the purpose of the fable.
Erik Edson is a multi-disciplinary artist that uses landscape as metaphor to reflect humanity's interaction with the natural world. Human abasement to nature is displayed through his manipulation of animal imagery. His work incorporates childhood toys and figures from the world of fairy tales. In his exhibition Fable, Edson creates a carnivalesque environment that reflects the relationship between human and animal. "He attempts to bring viewers to the brink of disorientation" (14) through his slapstick wit and quality of sleeplessness. Edson's nature is a distant world where taxidermist bears stand frozen in chintz upholstery fabric, beady eyes black and vacant: his life-sized teddy-bear.
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