Extinction

Extinction is a meditation on the accelerating disappearance of animal species from our planet. The work features animals that are either already extinct or critically endangered. Each figure begins as a sculpted form from which a mold is cast, then recreated in artist made abaca paper. Paper was chosen with intent: it is one of the most common and disposable materials we produce, used and discarded without thought. That disposability becomes a metaphor for how animals, too, are increasingly treated as expendable - erased through neglect, exploitation, and destruction of habitat.

The animals are presented in postures that recall both trophy rugs and roadkill: flattened skins with three dimensional heads and feet remaining, haunting traces of once-living beings. This posture is not passive but accusatory - it speaks to the violence and indifference of human actions, reducing magnificent creatures to mere remnants.

Suspended in white, the paper animals appear as fragile ghosts, hovering between presence and absence. Together, they form a silent procession - a warning and an elegy - urging us to reconsider what we value before more lives vanish into memory.

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