Graphite on cold press paper, 2025
I create these chimeras – these creatures that are marriages of flora, fauna, and human body – to be like harbingers, ushering in unseen possibilities in an age of fracture and ecological collapse. Thus these chimeras are invitations to step into new and more powerful ways of being to meet this moment. The title is a reference to a favorite hymn from a childhood spent in church:
Let all mortal flesh keep silence and with fear and trembling stand;
Ponder nothing earthly-minded, for with blessing in his hand
Christ our God to earth descendeth, our full homage to demand.
The fleshy appearance of the smooth nopal cactus has always seemed appealing, but I know better than to touch it.