That quote is from the pbs ART21 episode on Walton Ford, and unfortunately it's not a complete quote and doesn't capture the intricate concept of the painting in it's entirety. Each frame draws attention to a different part of the elephants body that represents a trait noticed by the blind man, i.e. one man states "Well I know what an elephant is he’s smooth and hard, kind of like polished wood", another grabs the leg and goes "no no no an elephant is like a tree trunk" and another sees the tail and states that "the elephant is like a paintbrush". Thus, each frame represents a different blind man's perspective on what an elephant is, and we are only able to focus on one frame at a time. Also, the species of bird is different in each frame, and represent the different blind men.





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