When I first realised that many people consider Nature to be something that we are not part of - there are humans and then there is this great wild thing we must work around that is called the natural world - I realised that I had never once considered myself to be separate from Nature.

Since then, I have come to see that there is something dangerous about this perspective: if we don't consider ourselves part of Nature then we are not invested in cherishing, tending and respecting Nature; instead, our focus is on taming and controlling it.

When I see a creature in its natural element, it is this elemental relationship that I want to capture. But how to do this?

How can we use a two-dimensional medium to express the alive essence of a wild (or semi-wild) being?