Johanna Mueller "Crossing Paths at Devils Gultch"

My work combines literary and mythical history of the animal with modern science to bring awareness of climate change, human encroachment on animal wilderness, and our overall need to preserve flora and fauna on this planet. My detailed engravings often contain animals within animals, a reference to animal cognition and spirits within animal bodies.  This piece combines multiple engravings, printed and delicately collaged to the vintage Topographic map.  Animals and plants reclaim their place on the planet as equals, as they overlay topographical maps and compositions complexly constructed to echo the incredible synchronicities of the natural world.