***Welcome and Thank you for visiting my site***
I have been fascinated by animals since the early days of my life. I love to create scenes portraying human-animal interactions of compassion, devotion and refuge as well as scenes of their sorrows, tragically many species find themselves in. I believe it is crucial that collectively we all strive and extend the *Intelligent Light* (a light of wisdom), in order to bridge this inherent destructive gap that exists between us and the living world. Because what are we without the animal, plant, oceanic and micro worlds?
As E. O Wilson brilliantly states in an interview July 6, 2007 with Bill Moyers, "...we're the ones that can destroy the world. No other single species ever had anything like that power. We have the power to destroy the world, the living world. And we also have the knowledge to avoid doing it..."
I create and feel best in the rain, wind and snow***
India and Japan feel like shadows that follow me everywhere I go and happily, I find influencing me and my work. I am obsessed with 14-19th century Indian Miniatures and ancient Japan***
NYC is the sweetest friend and I feel very lucky to live here***
I live and paint in Brooklyn and dream a gigantic dream that one day all elephants shall be free Please dream with me***
SIDE-NOTES
The video of the elephant (*Devi*) on the front page of this site was taken by Glenn on December 30, 2007 at the San Diego Zoo. The "rocking behavior" Devi is exhibiting is often mistaken as "dancing" and has not been reported in the wild, only in captive elephants. It has been noted as symptomatic of psychological disorders stemming from the excruciating boredom suffered, among other things, by captive elephants, and sometimes is a precursor to aggression.
A THOUGHT ON ELEPHANT AGGRESSION
For centuries many newspaper articles, zoos and circus people have claimed that elephants from time to time can be insane, crazy and just mean spirited. I would like to clear up this gross miscalculation and say elephants have never been any of these things, they only have been reacting to their captivity. The elephant behavior that has lead to this belief is a result of our abuse of elephants--which is in itself INSANE, crazy and just mean spirited-- forcing them into confined spaces and foreign situations and objectifying them as entertainment rather than accepting them as the highly intelligent, very social and complex sentient beings they are.
Desperately, like all animals, they want to be FREE and it is how they are communicating to us. I applaud The Elephant Sanctuary in Hohenwald, Tennessee for their intelligent and progressive thinking, they understand, sadly, what most do not. Elephants deserve utmost respect, need space to roam and love privacy. Elephants, like all species, are not ours; they never have been, and they never will be***
