My art is grounded in the age-old truth that people are animals enmeshed in a worldwide web of life upon which all earthlings depend. biodiversity loss poses existential risks to all the planet's residents, to us and to all our relations. given the immensity and imminence of the threat, i work to redress how thoughts of interspecies interdependence tend to fall By the Wayside amid human-centric lives. Developments like factory farming, urbanization, and digitalization have distanced us from our other-than-human relatives, even though their prospects and ours remain linked. not unlike our stone age ancestors, People living in penthouses or shacks at the centers or margins of the modern global economy rely on the rest of the natural world. earth's creatures aren't merely characters for Kids books or stuffed animal menageries. we should care that canaries drop in droves in our proverbial coal mines, for the sake of one and all!

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Conservation canines are essentially dogs pushing back on trends put into motion by game-changing canids of yore. The eager, outgoing wolves who first approached fireside scrap heaps eventually evolved into allies who herded livestock and guarded harvests. Agriculture and cities subsequently flourished to current levels, where species are "disappearing" left and right due to our excessive (mis)use of such transformative power.

 

Harnessing several visual mediums, I produce anthropological graphica about various impressive roles that these working dogs play: in biological & ecological fieldwork and zookeeping; in promoting coexistence between food & fiber producers and wildlife; in helping shut down poaching & trafficking networks; in protecting against biosecurity threats like invasive species & disease; and, not least of all, in environmental justice efforts.