‘North American Animals In Bark’ is a photographic series conceived in studio and created spontaneously in the field… I photograph barks of specific tree species through hand-cut paper templates, looking for the animal’s spirit reflected in the world of flora that surround them. I find the animals through intuition and am inspired in part by this quote by Naturalist John Muir, “When we tug at a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world.”