Still Here
They were here before the flag. Before the founding. Before any of it.
The animals in this collection nearly vanished from the American continent - hunted, poisoned, displaced, reduced to numbers so small that extinction felt inevitable. Each one came back.
The American bison. The bald eagle. The gray wolf. The California condor. The American alligator. The whooping crane. The manatee. The mountain lion. The sea otter. The trumpeter swan.
Ten animals. Ten survival stories. Each one rendered in fine pen and ink on black - no slogans, no symbolism, no explanation. Just the animal, taken completely seriously, staring back at you with the quiet authority of something that has outlasted everything thrown at it.
This is not patriotism. This is not politics. This is a portrait of what was here before us, what we almost destroyed, and what refused to disappear.
Still Here.
