ARTIST’S WONDERLUST STATEMENT I was born a naturalist and an artist. This Flipbook represents the melding of both in form. This “Wonderlust Flipbook” showcases my lifelong quest to know and understand what on earth I am, on a giant twirling ball that circles a giant burning orb, which is just one amongst billions and billions. Mine has been a scientific expedition into the Spi ritual Mystery of our existence. My focus is and has always been on our existence amongst the miracles of nature. It started when I was young, with my fascination for living things, from ants to tulips to turtles and trees. Small creatures fascinated me. I quickly saw a connection between their lives and mine. And I quickly began to try to understand them, to try to discover what made them do what they do. And I discovered that drawing and sketching them literally shaped my truths in form. I watched as they ate food, built homes, travelled across the land, hung out with friends, fought, were born, suffered and died. There was continuity within the landscape of nature. The more I looked, the more I saw that how life expressed itself was awesome and endlessly beautiful. By the time I was five I had a hand lens, binoculars, and a microscope. I experimented with animals by catching them, putting them into jars, and boxes and watching what they did. And the deeper I went into the small, the more it became a miraculous incomprehensibility that was the source of my Wonderlust, my
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