Some of my work is in Issue #33 of this Portland, Oregon based magazine called Bear Deluxe. The magazine focuses on art and environmental issues and it has some really great art and articles in it! Check it out!

Here is a painting of mine from the “Murder Ballad” series in a friend/collector’s home in LA. Her cats are really into it!! I like how it looks on the wood paneled wall. Thanks for the photo Mickey!!

This is a photo of some mule deer in Rocky Mountain Arsenal, just outside of Denver, CO.

About ​fifteen years ago Shell Oil Company and the U.S. Army began a massive, $2.1 billion cleanup at Rocky Mountain Arsenal, one of the most contaminated Superfund sites in the United States. The Army  handed over the last of its cleaned parcels to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 2010 when the former chemical weapons and pesticide manufacturing facility was fully transitioned into a National Wildlife Refuge, one of the largest in the country.

“Of course, it will be the only one where deer and coyotes roam next to toxic landfills that have been sealed with three-foot layers of clay — landfills that the Army will continue to monitor to make sure their contents don’t seep into the surrounding water. But Shell site manager Roger Shakely says every inch of the refuge itself, which totals 15,000 acres, is clear. ‘It’s safe for a person to walk anywhere on the refuge, but it will still be restricted,’ he explains. ‘Our top priority is the wildlife.’” ​And the wildlife is abundant.”(quoted from blog.westward.com)

The refuge is home to bald eagles, bison, coyote, rabbits and burrowing owls to name a few. And native plants are being reintroduced as well as a restoration of the shortgrass prairie.

Of course I am fascinated by this place and want to visit!! I love the photos of the Denver skyline behind the animals. Pretty amazing place. Like Chernobyl, the wildlife moved in once we had created an area too toxic for human habitation. Once again, wildlife thrives in the absence of humans, even in the presence of toxicity.

Look at how cute that thing is? My friend’s parents had flying squirrel’s living in their cupboards and captured them in these fantastic photos (courtesy of my friend’s dad Jim). I love the food in the foreground and then that beautiful rare creature in the background. Makes me wish I had some in my cupboard !

For those of you who can’t make the show at Wave Hill, here is one of the two videos in the show. The Day video is coming soon!!

“For her multi-media project Half Life, Parker built a scale model of the southern section of Wave Hill’s Glyndor House, which contains the Sunroom Project Space, and placed it in the nearby Woodland from March to August 2011. A motion-sensor camera was fixed on the structure, recording the comings and goings of various fauna that live onsite, as well as changes to the flora over that period. Parker edited the short bursts of high-definition video into two time-lapse sequences, one day and one night, which are displayed with the weathered and dilapidated model, serving as a witness to the unseen changes in the landscape.”

There will be an artist talk/reception on September 18 at 1:30 in the Sunroom Project space at Wave Hill. The Friendly Falcons have a really amazing installation next door in the Sunporch and are doing a performance after my Q & A/artist talk. I love their project, and am looking forward to the performance!

It’s almost time to take down the model, put it in storage at Wave Hill until the show in September. I can’t believe it has already been 5 months. I am looking forward to seeing how the model of the Sunroom looks in the Sunroom in Glyndor House…