Vegan (creature)

Artist Trenton Doyle Hancock uses the word vegan to refer to fictional creatures responsible for the death of The Legend, the oldest of a plant-like species known as mounds. The concept of a vegan is based largely on the more common usage of the word (see Vegan). However, in Hancock's language, a vegan is not a person who doesn't eat meat; rather, such a person is a "vegan vessel", the victim of a vegan that has taken residence in his stomach.Hancock's depictions of vegans are more than likely parodical, although in interviews with the artist, this is less than clear. One is reminded of Max Ernst's character Loplop who, within the terms of surrealism, cannot be classified as entirely fictional or factual because surrealism intends to cross the boundaries between, and merge the qualities of, reality and dreams.