RUTH K. BURKE
  • Work
    • Susurrus
    • In Heaven Love Comes First
    • Ruminant >
      • Keeping Everyone Comfortable, 2017
      • Forever Heifer, 2017
      • Trough, 2016
      • We are Flesh, Fat, and Blood, 2016
      • Closer to Closure, 2017
      • Bargaining Tool (2,000 lbs), 2016
    • Moving Image & Site-Specific >
      • The Process of Coming and Going in this World, 2018
      • Quiet, 2018
      • Emblem of Rural Quiet, 2017
      • Connected Kingdoms, 2017
      • Boustrophedon, 2017
      • The Social Life of Meat, 2018
      • Itchy in the Grass, 2018
      • Gopi, 2015
      • Countering the Bull, 2016
      • Aleph, 2017
      • Window Into, 2017
    • Horses >
      • Herd, 2015
      • Herd II, 2016
      • Burgazada Ride, 2016
      • Epona, 2018
    • R&D
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Bond, 2015-present
Digital C-Prints

Licking is an important method of establishing social bonds between cows who are both kin and not*. This ongoing photographic work documents the visual residue of such bonding.

*Sato, Shusuke, et al. “The Influence of Social Factors on Allogrooming in Cows.” Applied Animal Behaviour Science, vol. 38, no. 3-4, 1993, pp. 235–244., doi:10.1016/0168-1591(93)90022-h.
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  • Work
    • Susurrus
    • In Heaven Love Comes First
    • Ruminant >
      • Keeping Everyone Comfortable, 2017
      • Forever Heifer, 2017
      • Trough, 2016
      • We are Flesh, Fat, and Blood, 2016
      • Closer to Closure, 2017
      • Bargaining Tool (2,000 lbs), 2016
    • Moving Image & Site-Specific >
      • The Process of Coming and Going in this World, 2018
      • Quiet, 2018
      • Emblem of Rural Quiet, 2017
      • Connected Kingdoms, 2017
      • Boustrophedon, 2017
      • The Social Life of Meat, 2018
      • Itchy in the Grass, 2018
      • Gopi, 2015
      • Countering the Bull, 2016
      • Aleph, 2017
      • Window Into, 2017
    • Horses >
      • Herd, 2015
      • Herd II, 2016
      • Burgazada Ride, 2016
      • Epona, 2018
    • R&D
  • statement
  • about/cv
  • Contact