Nature Mortes
an ongoing series
Part of my practice, more on the spiritual than art side, is to create shrines honoring the dead creatures that I cross paths with on the road and on the trail. I typically carry their bodies away from the car and foot traffic to a peaceful place, lay them down in a respectful position, and adorn around them with the natural materials found in the area. After I feel good about their new resting place, I talk and sing to them
“The death in me sees the life in you”
Return now to place you lived before you were born / Striped skunk / Taos, New Mexico / September 2025
Offering to the bears / Collaboration with Venus / Rainbow trout / Trampas Lake, Pecos Wilderness, New Mexico / June 2024
May the earth which has fed you in turn be fed by you / Northern Raccoon / Mora, New Mexico / September 2023
They do not know you anymore / Arizona Gray Squirrel / Sandia Mountains, New Mexico / March 2023
I am like you / Mountain Cottontail Rabbit / Sandia foothills, New Mexico / March 2021
To mourn death is to honor life / Greater Roadrunner / Magdalena, New Mexico / July 2019
Roadrunner / Greater Roadrunner / Magdalena, New Mexico / July 2019
Roadrunner / Greater Roadrunner / Magdalena, New Mexico / July 2019
May the next world be kinder / St. Simon Island Raccoon / Savannah, Georgia / January 2019
May the next world be kinder / Savannah, Georgia / January 2019
May the next world be kinder / St. Simon Island Raccoon / Savannah, Georgia / January 2019
The death in me sees the life in you / Greater Roadrunner / Wimberley, Texas / February 2019
The death in me sees the life in you / Greater Roadrunner / Wimberley, Texas / February 2019
The death in me sees the life in you / Greater Roadrunner / Wimberley, Texas / February 2019
A living toward death / Whiptail lizard / Albuquerque, New Mexico / May 2020
A living toward death / Whiptail lizard / Albuquerque, New Mexico / May 2020
Unidentified bird / Austin, Texas / August 2015 (Collaboration with Sophia Rose)