Butterflies Collaborate with Fire Artist Spazuk

View the smoke paintings of Spazuk-- a creative collaboration with a fire artist who uses smoke for paint, young artists, and live monarch butterflies at
Reverence: The Monarch Project
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Steven Spazuk and Danielle Delhaes have launched the Monarch Project, the first venture of the REVERENCE series. Reverence is a unique collection of works of art based on the traces left by living creatures, symbolizing the precariousness of animal and plant life on Earth. Rooted in the biophilia concept, REVERENCE has as its core purposes to stir viewers’ emotions, to surprise, to raise awareness, as well as to cultivate a sense of respect and wonder toward the natural world. Spazuk and Delhaes are exploring a collaborative, community-based artistic and creative process as a means of connecting Humans and Nature. Their combined artistic and educational approach brings participants in close proximity with Nature. The experience of beauty, awe, a sense of belonging, a personal connection and an emotional understanding all lead to REVERENCE for Nature.

Lionfish Invasion

I am preparing proposal artwork for a panoramic installation artwork.  Started by making a scientific illustration of our villain, and will transfer and rework in pencil and watermedia.  Work process ended with a serendipitous intersection of urban sea level rise with the lionfish invasion....

Azuma Makoto

Laplanders Spray Caribou with Reflective Paint

From the BBC:

Herders in Lapland are spraying their reindeer with reflective paint to help drivers see them in the dark, it appears.

The special spray is being tested on their fur and antlers to see how it holds up in different weather conditions, Finnish national broadcaster YLE reports.

"The aim is to prevent traffic accidents. The spray is being tested on fur at the moment, but it may be even more effective on the antlers, because they are seen from every side," says Anne Ollila, chairwoman of theReindeer Herders Association.

As many as 4,000 reindeer die in traffic accidents every year in Finland, the Finnish Game and Fisheries Research Institute says. Most incidents occur in the dark months of November and December, when roads are prone to becoming icy, the Helsingen Sanomat newspaper reports.

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Polar Bear Monoprint

Arctic Hares

Maiden's Tower Istanbul

I have begun a series of portraits of man-made monuments which will ultimately be submerged as climate change raises sea levels-- starting here with the Maiden's Tower of Istanbul.  From a photo I took there in summer 2013.

Greenland Iceberg