"Franny is listening to the program on wolves. I say to her. Would you like to be a wolf? She answers haughtily, How Stupid, you can't be one wolf, you're always eight or nine, six or seven."

- Deleuze & Guattari, 1987

Philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari once claimed that we are not that far from wolves. they claim that far from being understood in the simple structural manner of a singular tree whose roots dig into the ground and whose branches extend to the sky, people are better understood in terms of multiplicities.

People are not a simple ordering of Id, Ego and Superego desires, but rather a mess of desires and personalities which all inhabit our mind at the same time.

when people come together, we, like wolves, form packs. Define ourselves in relation to the pack. . A key element in Deleuze & Guattari's* project of becoming-wolf, is a move to locate yourself at the periphery of the crowd, but not leaving it.

When most theorists and critics look at art and artists they usually fall back on the simplistic rhetoric of signs and the signifiers. Of sign, object and a singular meaning, always retreating to their safe zone and lump it all together as a unified singularity representing The Unconscious. They're forgetting that the unconscious is a multiplicity.and that art should be examined as having not one, but several allusions working at the same time.

Artists occupy a special position in our societies: on the periphery, yet able to move throughout the centre. Their movement through the crowd enhances the multiple desires and flows of thought they engage with. But then the artist inevitably moves back to the periphery to better view the crowd and these desires are then thrown down upon canvas, scribbled onto paper or captured onto film.

Each work is produced from a vantage point that allows them to view the crowd (should she or he choose to) without leaving it and becomes representational of the formlessness seen from the periphery.

The artists are solely concerned with the production of their work, their contribution; and each artist operates with a high degree of sovereignty.

Despite the sovereignty of each artist, this pack is no less hierarchical than any other group formation. However, like wolves on the hunt, each artist doesn't move only in front of but also throughout the pack.

Bits of an essay by Anthony Faramelli 2010

*Gilles Deleuze, a French philosopher, and Félix Guattari, a French psychoanalyst