“Least Concern” • gouache & watercolor on paper • 24”x24”
This painting focuses on species that most of us appreciate for being beautiful or cute, but that don’t merit special conservation considerations because their populations are stable or even high enough to be a nuisance. Most animals fit into this level of prioritization, living and dying in makeshift habitats on whatever land we have least use for, amid our pollution and highways and homes and collapsing ecosystems and discarded things, their situation never quite dire enough for us to feel it’s worth the trouble of fixing.
For Thinkspace’s “POW! WOW! Hawaii: Exploring the New Contemporary Art Movement” • Showing February 3rd - 24th at the Honolulu Museum of Art School
I keep feeling like I could do better now, but I know that was just a different time.
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