Night Vision

Night Vision is an ode to the ferocious fragility of nature. The ghostly linocut print at the heart of this work is inspired by the image of a resident barred owl snapped by my infrared camera posted on ten acres of ancient cedar trees in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. My property is one of the last of its size in a formerly rural area now stripped, developed, and overpopulated. While images of deer, coyotes, and raccoons are common, I have this year been surprised by images of both a black bear and a cougar, no doubt driven from their natural habitat by our ceaseless destruction of our environment. They are apex predators doomed to starve and perish.