In this series of mixed media paintings I look at people and their relationships with the natural world. Are they contemplating their world, exploiting it, helping it, or just existing in it? As in my other art, I want to create works that are beautiful in order to give the viewer an easy way to enter the painting. After their initial steps into the work, I hope that they will begin to sense that something strange is going on in the painting and will begin to ask questions not only about the painting, but also about their own place in nature.