Ann Weber Residency

Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
May, 2024

In May of this year I participated in the Ann Weber Residency in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. The setting was tropical and the seedpods abundant. I intended to  work on my curatorial essay for the "Echoes of Voynich" catalog but the sky and sea called out. Within a few days I'd abandoned the keyboard for paints and a glue gun. Having left my studio lights behind in California, I explored shooting al-fresco by bouncing sunlight through mirrors. What's that saying about necessity and invention?

This work is developing into a new chapter of the print series "Chimera of the Post-Anthropocene" which focuses on the ecosystem of Banderas Bay on Mexico's west coast. Earlier chapters are sited in Banff, Canada, California's Estero Bay and the High Sierras. The Chimera pictured are flora versions of the mythological fauna, an offering to the abiding abundance of nature. Big mammals may be in trouble,  but life has won out over 5 great extinctions and will do so again in new and unexpected forms.