All my work is about the natural world which I find utterly fascinating, staggeringly beautiful, brutally cruel, mysterious, and fragile, -much more fragile, it seems, than we realized. I am also in awe of how inconceivably vast, and incomprehensibly complex it is. My desire to document and chronicle the natural world satisfies a need to express my wonder and love. It connects me to all other living things and it helps sustains me in the lonely and universally human quest to find meaning. I usually alter my photographic images with pencil and pastel. This reworking of the surface requires time and close attention, so I get to know the feathers, or scales very well. It is a way to have a kind of intimacy with nature’s most exquisite details.
We are entering a phase called the ’ Sixth mass extinction'- everyday 72 species become extinct. Because of climate change, the ubiquitous use of pesticides and habitat destruction, populations of birds, insects and reptiles are in sharp decline, Many species are already doomed. I memorialize little dead creatures, make them monumental, much larger than life, so they cant be overlooked.
