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LOUISVILLE MAGAZINE 4.17 143 DOUGLAS MILLER e animals in Douglas Miller's work occupy a liminal space where rules break down. A bear's face half-covered in dark fur so rich that purple bleeds through, the rest of its face just the first tentative lines of an unfinished sketch. A vulture's death stare gives way to a colorless neck. In "How we meet our history," a black cat peers out of the frame with bright yellow eyes, the top of its head floating in white space, its body from the nose down not there at all, suggesting, perhaps, that by the time we are distant enough to see the past, it is too far gone to see much of anything. Horses fit perfectly into Miller's strange world. "ey are really odd- looking creatures," the 43-year-old says. "ey have weird proportions, these huge muscles in the upper legs coming down to really thin ankles and feet. at's what draws me to them. I'm also really drawn to texture. A horse has that almost non- fur on their body, which really articulates their musculature and bone structure."