“The impact of species loss is a deep concern that informs the ideas behind my artwork. I paint carefully rendered miniature portraits of endangered animals into larger compositions to raise questions about Earth’s biodiversity crisis and the place of wildlife within increasingly unstable habitats.
This lithograph includes an image of a female Great Basin silverspot butterfly whose populations are in decline mainly due to habitat loss. Swirling and exploding shapes, bright colors, and unlikely spatial relationships illustrate how our progressively chaotic environment displaces fauna and the systems that support it.”
– Kara Maria
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