The animal sujets are another approach to my interest in evolution.

 

In the animal world replication is limited by the supply of energy, exacerbated by competiton and alleviated by synergism. Under typical conditions animal forms are in equilibrium with their natural environment. On a short term this natural balance is brought out of equilibrium through an atypical external impact on the system, such as the weather - or man. Evolution changes this balance, but typically of an extended period of trial and error.

 

Evolutionary improvements within such balanced systems impacts the effectiveness and efficiency in using the given energy supplies, resulting in changes in the composition of species within given niches, of but as of yet, have not endangered the planet as a whole. The level of change is limited. Only the human animal is capable of the complete annihilation, not only of its own species, but all life forms.

 

In this sense, humans clearly appear as an abberation in the continuum of evolution. is it a question of complexity? 

 

 

In my work I therefore reflect animals, reduced to their essential and idiosyncratic features, within their natural environment, which are also reduced to essential visual and compositional elements. In this form of reduction I aim to bring their character traits to the foreground. Although these features may appear human, I hold that they merely the animal component of human nature.