These colored pencil and graphite drawings, all done in 2020, were spurred by the shocking decline experienced by the world’s insect and amphibian populations. The unexpressed part of each drawing reflects approximately the degree of loss.
Insects
Fully 41% of all global insect species declined in the decade between 2009 and 2019.
Bees: 46% decline
Honey bee (Apis mellifera)
This drawing was accepted into the Minneapolis Institute of Art’s 2020 “Foot in the Door” exhibit.
Beetles: 49% decline
American burying beetle(Nicrophorus americanus)
Caddisflies: 68% decline
Hood casemaker (Leptoceroidea molana)
Butterflies: 55% decline
Monarch (Danaus plexippus)
Flies: 25% decline
Green bottle fly (Lucilia sericata)
Stoneflies: 35% decline
Colorless stripetail (Isoperla orata)
Dragonflies: 37% decline
Blue-eyed darner (Rhionaechna multicolor)
Mayflies: 37% decline
Giant mayfly (Hexagenia limbata)
Beetles: 49% decline
Globemallow leaf beetle (Calligrapha serpentina)
Amphibians
Wyoming toad
Bufo baxteri
Panamanian golden frog
Atelopus zeteki
Lehman’s poison toad
Dendrobates Lehmanni
Interior robber frog
Eleutherodactylus locustus
Kihansi spray toad
Nectophrynoides asperginis
Corroboree frog
Pseudophryne corroboree