Why the apes?

From 2011-2015 I went to college to become a Pastor. The school shall not be named because fuck them, but that time in my life was pretty significant. Sometime in the middle of pursuing my theological degree I began deconstructing my faith, or it began unravelling right before me, and I let it. Fuck it, I encouraged it. I’d always had my questions about god, Jesus, Christianity, the Devil, Hell, etc. I was just born curious, and exposed to all kinds of religious stuff growing up. Questions that I suppressed. One day I was watching planet of the apes with my younger brother, probably contemplating if mankind is essentially some form of evolved/modified chimp. I laughed about it, tossed around the idea of one day having an entire ape/chimp-based show. I was simultaneously sculpting a 4 ft chimp out of wire, for no reason at all (featured). Fast-forward 10 plus years, I’m still exploring this verry concept in my work through chimp.