Circus ranivorus Drawing

The human body is kin to all wild things, and this kinship with the natural world is physical and psychological. My work depicts a world in which the body becomes mere matter for nature to reshape, re-grow, and re-produce new life; an ecological progress hints of a change of authority; the body fuses with its natural surroundings. In this world, I fashion a new surreal dynamic, comparing the scale of our human bodies to the scale of nature"”eight feet of graphite on paper creating an elephant's mass as human hands, and thousands of ants covering a naked body embedded in the earth. The dimensions change size, reflecting the variability of nature's power, its ability to thrive or to wither. These dynamics are rendered using solid materials from the earth"”graphite and soil. These basic materials give rise to analogies, challenging thousands of simple strokes to create a moment where human nature and natural processes become indistinguishable.