Nature's Reprisal
Nature’s Reprisal, serves as a resolution to my question of humans’ relationship with animals and what sets us apart. It is about a post-apocalyptic world after humans have destroyed the planet to the point that it is uninhabitable. However, as time progresses nature finds a way to heal and take over the remnants of our world in strange ways. The biology of plants and animals has been scrambled because of humans but they continue to thrive. In the end, the natural world will always come back and find new ways to survive.
Nightly Encounters
This series of paintings is about the relationship between humans and animals as it pertains to our environmental and physical differences and how we interact with each other. Specifically, I focus on encounters with animals at night and try to capture the feelings that are evoked when two very different creatures stumble across each other unexpectedly. There is something primal about seeing an animal at night. The distinction between man and beast becomes clearer than ever in the dark. The same creatures that we keep in our homes seem to become more animalistic when the sun goes down. In that moment, I feel we are more connected with our prehistoric ancestors. What must the early humans have thought, when they first used fire and could see these creatures at night? I want to explore what sets us apart from animals and how we have evolved as a species by harnessing the unnatural.
Printmaking
This series of monoprints are an ode to nature and the circle of life. The various types of flora and fauna are meant to represent the duality of life and death.
