about

I want my art to help save animals.
I want to show people through my drawings and my poems what is happening to animals right now. I have figured out, that one way people really listen, is when I draw the harm we, humans, are causing to animals. And when I write poems as if animals themselves wrote them.

My animals have tears in their eyes.
I use black and red pens to create my drawings, because with pens I do not usually draw so many details. I want a very simple outline of an animal. I do not want shading and all those other effects that a pencil can achieve. I do not want these in my drawings of endangered animals. A single black line for an animal and a single red line, or a dot, for a threat.

I have also experimented with splashes of red inks, but I found that too graphic. I think my drawings are more powerful with just a red line. I prefer the subtle messaging of this minimal technique. It feels more serious to me.

I also use a pen, because when I use a pencil, and I am afraid that the drawing is not perfect, I use an eraser too much to erase anything I do not like. And I draw over it again and again and again. If I used a pencil, I would have never finished the drawings.

Governors Island Art Fair
I show my work at Governors Island Art Fair in New York City. Governors Island Art Fair is my chance to share what I care about with many smart people. I want people, who come to the art exhibition every year, to realize that all these different kinds of animals are getting hurt and are dying from harmful things that we, humans, are doing to them.