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Native animals return to the streets of San Francisco.
“Reverse Manifest Destiny” Series
2021-2022
These illustrations depict the buffalo held in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park returning to their original homelands of Wyoming and Montana.
2024, 2025
The Golden Gate Park buffalo are depicted returning to their homeland, in murals on walls in Laramie, Wyoming and Great Falls, Montana. With lead painter, Kamryn M.
All animal illustrations hand-drawn in Procreate, then layered onto Photoshopped photos.
"Back on the Block" Series
Select illustrations. 2021-2022
In these illustrations, giant animals run through the streets of San Francisco, my home town. Some like the coyote and great blue heron, have returned . Others, including the elk and grizzly, have yet to return. Each plays a critical role in maintaining balance. With these creations I’m wishing them back.
The illustations were born out of frustration with the endless economic "rushes" that wash over this land, and the destruction that they bring. It was joyful and empowering to draw these huge, hyper-real animals reclaiming the land, representing forces greater than ourselves.
The first illustrations, coyote and great blue heron, are depicted on the corner in San Francisco where I grew up.
"Reverse Manifest Destiny" Series
Since 1891 the city of San Francisco has kept a small herd of buffalo in Golden Gate Park. These illustrations depict a giant buffalo journeying back to Wyoming, where part of the original 1891 herd was taken from. 2021- 2022.
"Return to the Plains" Murals
Murals based on the "Reverse Manifest Destiny" illustrations, depicting the original Golden Gate Park bison returning to their homelands in Wyoming and Montana.
