Our joint reality with endangered species drove me to use discarded clothing to make hapless puppets of several of them. Extending the connection, I then drew their shrouded forms using raw chunks of charcoal torn from the bark of trees killed by a forest fire.
All works: 2009, charcoal on paper, 11” W X 17” H
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