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This body of work focused on the devastating impact of <strong>climate change on wildlife<\/strong>, specifically highlighting <strong>endangered animals<\/strong> whose habitats are rapidly disappearing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Painted in an <strong>expressive, urgent style<\/strong>, the works were created using <strong>house paint on builder\u2019s paper<\/strong> \u2014 a deliberate choice of materials meant to echo the fragility and impermanence of the natural world. Builder\u2019s paper, often used to protect surfaces during construction or demolition, served here as both canvas and metaphor: a reminder that the world these animals depend on is quite literally being paved over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each painting captured a species on the brink \u2014 not as specimens, but as living presences marked by energy, emotion, and a sense of looming disappearance. 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