Parallel Work

Natural Histories

Survivors, Descendants, and the Animals of the Present Age, An Archive Between Extinctions

These images run beside the larger narrative series. They do not show the ruins of our machines or the remains of a forgotten civilization. They show the living forms that share the world with us now—fish, birds, and animals, observed, remembered, and cut into wood.

They are not separate from the ruins. They belong to the same story.

Relief printmaking reduces each subject to what can be carved. Scales become lines. Feathers become cuts. Fur, bone, water, and movement are divided into black and white. Each image begins with observation. Memory alters it. The knife removes what is not needed.

This is not a scientific inventory. It is an archive of living forms.

The animals of the present carry the memory of older worlds. Their ancestors lived beside mammoths, mastodons, ground sloths, and other great animals that disappeared at the end of the last Ice Age at the start of the Holocene Epoch. Those creatures left bones, tracks, and fragments. Their absence became part of the landscape.

These animals were here before our roads, towers, engines, and screens. Some may remain after those structures have fallen. Others may survive only as images, fossils, or marks cut into wood.

The prints hold them between two extinctions: the great loss of the past and the uncertain losses ahead.