White charcoal

This white charcoal piece is titled Mother Nature's Grim Reaper (2024) as a homage to how often the rest of our family on Earth is left out of the conversation surrounding death. I personally believe the way the Western world often represents death as the Grim Reaper is far too anthropocentric and disregards its universality. In this way, personified and "other-ed" from us, death has the ability to be villainized and feared, rather than accepted as the natural part of life that it is. Additionally, re-introducing animals into the symbolic imagery with this piece is also a way for me to highlight the amount of excess death that all plants and animals are facing due to global warming, industrialization, and new age over-consumption.