Alaska
The mountains and wildlife have shaped me in a weathering process, sculpting my body and framing my psychology. I am grateful to have grown up with, and grown connected to, a place on the margins of modern civilization where one can return to the simplicity of being just another diminutive creature among massive forces. The profundity of being alive is so much more apparent when we step beyond the boundaries of our comfortable modern living.
This website celebrates a vast northern ecology that I continue to explore aesthetically and scientifically. Hopefully it contributes to your appreciation of, and desire to preserve, a natural world being rapidly consumed by the shortsightedness of humans. Nature does not need us, but we definitely need nature!
Wildlife Biology
I hold a Master’s degree in Wildlife Biology from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and have worked professionally as a researcher with the University, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. My interests are in mammalian and avian ecology and my research has focused on the lynx-snowshoe hare population cycle.
Artwork & Photography
Photography represents a challenge to reduce nature’s overwhelming canvas into digestible highlights of form and color, while remote cameras open a window into the secret lives of animals undisturbed by the presence of humans. I like to distill this imagery into geometries of my own imagination through drawing and painting.
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