Phantasmagoric

This series arose from my dreams riding through the savannah; My vivid youth and juvenile zebra companion remind my subconscious how deep my instinctive Animalia connection is and how powerful this awareness is in my life’s comprehension. This admiration of other species allows us to indulge in our likeness; this euphoric connection sympathetically leads back to me.

These images are composites; native environments were photographed in Africa, and the juvenile zebra was photographed in a large studio. The black-and-white spectrum suggests a time when the natural landscape was flanked by the diversity of many species held in high regard by humans as essential contributors to our ecosystem and self