![]() ![]() ![]() One critic compared them to Abstract Expressionism. The results were exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia and auctioned off at Christie’s for more than thirty thousand dollars. The Russian artists Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid had recently taught some of the sanctuary’s animals to paint with oils by holding brushes in their trunks. In the spring of 1999, when Lair was on a research trip in New York, he and Soldier stayed up late one night at Soldier’s place in Chinatown, talking about elephant art. He had hit upon the idea with Richard Lair, a conservationist and adviser at the Thai Elephant Conservation Center, where Luk Kop lived. Soldier was in Thailand to recruit musicians for an elephant orchestra. He’d been deemed too truculent to mix with tourists. When the composer and instrumentalist Dave Soldier first met him, in Thailand, in 2000, Luk Kop spent most of his time eating grass and hanging around with the other elephants. He had a brief moment of fame as a child actor, in the Disney film “Operation Dumbo Drop,” but grew into a sullen and ungainly teen. He didn’t build instruments out of sticks and gourds or blow trumpet solos as a five-year-old. He didn’t hum made-up tunes to himself as a youngster or shake his head when someone sang flat. ![]() Luk Kop didn’t seem to have the makings of a musical prodigy. ![]()
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