2017
9.3" x 13”
Archival print
A depiction of the now extinct Western Black Rhinoceros compiled from Dürer's influential woodcut of 1515 of an Indian rhino and many found photographs of the western black. Dürer, never having seen a rhinoceros, based his work on an inaccurate sketch of the first living example brought to Europe in 1515. Likewise, having never seen a black rhino, this work attempts to address the marvel and tragedy of this great creature through artistic imaginings of the first and of the last.
The didactic is from Wikipedia.
2017
19" x 8”
Archival print
A reconstruction of Indian elephants compiled from archival film of a hunt circa 1930.
2017
3.75" x 1.5”
Archival print
A reconstruction from archival film of giraffe roaming the African savannah.
2017
17" x 10”
Archival print
A reconstruction of the few remaining buffalo from a Newsreel of a buffalo hunt from 1910. In 1908, there was an estimated 1,115 buffalo in captivity and only 25 wild buffalo left in the United States from the original herds of 20 -30 million - Source . Today there is fewer than 30,000 wild bison in conservation herds and fewer than 5,000 unfenced.
