Decay

Artist Statement: While wandering through the woods near the Rocky mountains in Colorado I was surrounded by the wonders of nature, life, and death. My trusty Australian Shepard, Codie, barked in distress as he attempted to call for my attention, when I came to him he had the skull featured in the photo laying at his feet with a smile on his dog face. I felt it was my civic duty to share the story of this fallen beast as it was no act of chance I found it, it was destined to live on in art. I feel that the skull and the fallen tree both communicate a theme of death and decay that strongly contrasted the lively, green, and beautiful Rocky mountains.