Wild Kin 2

2026, Collage with Linoleum Block Elements on Wood Panel.

12 x 12 x 1 inches. One original.

This piece was born from my first trip to Patagonia, where I stood among mountains, rivers, and ancient trees and felt, for the first time with my full body, that I am from a beautiful continent. Growing up in East Oakland, I had almost no access to wild nature, and it was not until my work as a climate activist that I began to understand what that absence had cost me. These portraits are a homage to the dream of rewilding: to learn the language of birds and trees, to experience the wilderness not as an eco-tourist but as someone for whom wildness is a birthright, not a luxury. To fight for nature is to fight for myself. In this piece, a figure with blue hair stands against a blue patterned background.

Part of the Wild Kin series. Also see Wild Kin 1, Wild Kin 3, Wild Kin 4, Wild Kin 5, Wild Kin 6, Wild Kin 7, Wild Kin 10, and Wild Kin 11.