AT THE AGE of seven, in 1903, David Jones made a remarkable drawing of a dancing bear, in the street where he lived in Brockley, Kent. He later admitted that “to convey on paper this or that object seemed to me as natural a desire as, say, stroking the cat.” His predilection for animals is evident in his visual and literary art, because “it was important to be anthropomorphic, to deal through and in the things we understand as [wo]men – to be incarnational.” ‘Incarnational’ carries associations of Christ, the embodiment of the Holy Spirit, and reflects Jones’s Christian values. He believed the ...
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