Artist Trenton Doyle Hancock

Trenton Doyle Hancock

Trenton Doyle Hancock is an American artist. He was born in 1974 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and grew up in Paris, Texas.Hancock received a BFA from Texas A&M University, and an MFA from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Philadelphia...

 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

Mound (creature)

Mounds are half-plant, half-human creatures in the paintings and writings of artist Trenton Doyle Hancock He explained in an art21 interview that the mounds were created thousands of years ago, when an ape man "masturbated into a field of flowers". Hancock's mounds resemble black and white striped...

. 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.