United Fauna

Nature encompasses everything in the universe except us. Are we on the wrong side?

United Fauna, an exhibition of contemporary surrealist works, juxtaposes animal imagery with bizarre, off-scale machinery and technology as animals attempt to save themselves from humans. While nature won’t retaliate in such a fantastical manner, the severe consequences of our inaction on climate change are genuine.

We aren’t blind to the signs; we stay perpetually distracted from them. Why fret over shrinking ice sheets when Flat Earthers insist an Antarctic edge rings the world? We look up at the toxic jet chemtrails but look away from the sun blocked by the smoke of wildfires. Headlines focus more on the lasting effects of drag queen story hour on the next generation than on the inexorable force of nature that’s headed their way.
Why concern ourselves with the greatest threat to global security when there’s a cultural war against “the woke” to be fought?

We are in the Earth's sixth mass extinction period, according to two primary measures: species decline and loss of biodiversity. What kind of world are we leaving for our kids?

With no quarterly projections to make or congressional districts to win, nature doesn’t concern itself with anything, especially us. Why? After humans are gone, it has an eternity to recover.