maria_sputnik

at the barbershop today, the "beauty operator" told me about a film she saw on youtube featuring an elephant painting a picture. "it painted a picture OF AN ELEPHANT," she said. "an elephant holding a flower." i came right home and HERE IT IS!

doesn't this movie bring up uncomfortable questions? like: does the elephant KNOW that it's painting an elephant, as opposed to a bunch of random marks? does that mean that elephants are symbolic thinkers and capable of imagining things in 2D? does that mean that we could try to communicate with them via pictograph? does the elephant understand that painting "elephant w/flower in trunk" is CUTE? fuck!