The three foxes in this painting are endangered San Joaquin kit foxes, and they inhabit a Mojave dessert type future-scape in this piece. Their size is unclear here because of the frontal positioning of the center fox but in actuality they are quite small. The one on the right is being taken away by someone in a haz-mat suit with protective gloves. These foxes inhabit about 5 % of their original habitat around Bakersfield due to booming development and are considered an umbrella species for this part of California. That means if they survive then other threatened and endangered plants that share their habitat will have a chance too. The remaining ones are having a tough time generally because they do things like get in the way of construction equipment and get crushed in their dens, drink antifreeze and nose around in all sorts of contaminated garbage. They'll eat just about anything including rat poison. Info about habitat reclamation for them is at: The Endangered Species Recovery Program administered by California State University.

This piece is about confrontation. The green girl hovers in the foreground, and she represents nature and the personification of the foxes' trauma. The girl looks like she was in the background somewhere and suddenly she and the fox are right in our faces. She looks straight at us with a steady gaze, as if to say "Here we are, now look at us." The billboard with the manic horse's skeleton in a blond wig exhorting us to shop 'til we drop at the Megamall alludes to the jacked up caffeine driven super busy mega-consumer mind.

Detail 1 & Detail 2