notes on Sue Coe interview by went coates-smith

Sue Coe - She grew up close to a slaughterhouse and developed a passion to stop cruelty to animals.


'i think there is a tendency in the media to isolate people'

''whats the response?' and how do people respond?' well, i reply 'they dont respond the way you do. they respond quite happily because it reconfirms a reality they know about. so many people arein the struggle now and the work just reflects that struggle'

'not to see me but to see through my eyes...witnesssing without power'

'its very difficult for us to see these things unless we feel we have the power to change them,'
'unless people can go into the slaughterhouses and actually rescue an animal they don't want to go into it. if they see someone dying on the street, they don't want to see it because they can't do anything. but for me the process of witnessing through sung a pencil has been 'well maybe i can do a little thing'
bringing a awareness through drawing. 

'we're like little baby birds that fall out of the nest. i mean, if anything goes wrong, we fall, we fall out of our nests and our mouths start to open and we elect food to be dropped in.'

'what is the world that we live in thats made us so cruel, that made is so frightened to see?'

'i think I'm a kinder human than when i started out'

if i hadn't have met those people id have such cynicism and despair about the world'

before i was a artist putting out the work i had certain instincts, but now i know that theres a goodness, that if you open your eyes its all around.'