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Tilikum, 23×31,5 cm, pencil, charcoal, oil and acrylic on canvas, glued to carton, mounted with a nail on MDF, 2025\/2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Killer whale Tilikum, a male orca who was captured near Iceland at the age of two, spent most of his life at SeaWorld in Florida, USA. During his captive life he killed three people, amongst them his female trainer, he died of a bacterial lung infection at the age of thirty six in captivity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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