CHAPTER 5 | BACK TO THE TAIL EATERS

One pupil liked to draw a dog as a tail eater on the same paper.
Can you make up different tail eaters too?

Eating you own tail would be difficult for humans because we don’t have a tail and… where do you start eating yourself?

 

In drawings by the Romanian-American artist Saul Steinberg (1914-1999), figures attempt to finish the drawing of themselves. But where did they begin? And where should they end? Steinberg draws something that is impossible. Therefore, this resembles the idea of the tail-eater who can never quite eat itself.

Freely redrawn from the original drawings by Saul Steinberg