Animals have the ultimate connection to the earth, and play vital parts in the balance of ecology. Deer eat plants and flowers, and when those are plentiful, they are healthy and are a food source to bigger predators like wolves and cougars. Their existence provides existence to other species. Not only within the survival of other animals but plants and trees too. One of the most interesting things I’ve heard about this is about salmon.
When bears eat salmon out of the river, they drag the carcasses deeper into the forest, and the type of minerals, elements of those carcasses are vital to certain evergreen trees. Therefore without salmon and bears these trees would never even exist. I find it incredible how connected we are to nature, in ways we never could have imagined.
Both art pieces are original, done with micron pen and pencil.
