ENDANGERED: Fine Art & Photography Contest 2020 Submission

Art for me exist primarily as a non-verbal experience, an attempt to understand something of our place in the world. Over the course of my thirty-plus years as an artist, I've move from simple, representational landscapes into figurative and wildlife work, finding renewed inspiration from the body in isolation, contrasted sharply from an increasingly abstracted background. By removing the figure from its context, whether a woman from a room or a bird from the sky, I invite the audience to view the body as its own sort of landscape, defined as much by movement as the land is by stillness.

It's become cliché to note how our modern, interconnected lives often leave us feeling alienated. But if this sentiment has become banal through overuse, perhaps it's worth considering the reverse; perhaps the body, whether covered in flesh, fur, or feather, can reveal through form and color a truer, more real connection between man and his environment. Though isolated, we are never alone.

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