Emergence

Medium: Acrylic on cradled gesso board

Size: 36″ x 24”

Year: 2023

Emergence began as the third in a series of pollinator-plant devotional pieces, but morphed into something else when I learned that most of the moths I planned to include in this piece don’t feed as adults—and therefore aren’t pollinators. The plants in this piece, rather than being nectar sources, are larval food plants for each of the 20 moth species.