Via Big Medium:
“Inspired by stories of nature regenerating and reclaiming space during the Covid19 pandemic,
W I L D L I F E examines what happens when humanity removes itself from the natural world. The exhibition also introduces a new material for the artist the ceremonial bindi, worn for centuries on the forehead in Indian culture for spiritual, traditional, and fashion reasons. It can be seen as a third eye creating an opening to infinity or as a symbol of femininity. For the natural world depicted in the paintings, the renewed and rejuvenated flora and fauna are anthropomorphized with hundreds of bindis as wildlife reincarnated with third eyes. The twinkling of the jeweled bindis carry remnants of memory. The severed animal heads from which the new nature grows are depicted upside down to represent self-sabotage and the mistakes of the past.