Apex Healer
Apex Healer: The Wolf’s Prayer is an ongoing series of watercolor and ink paintings developed through the archetypal framework of Tarot. The project explores wolves as apex predators and integral ecological beings, inviting reflection on intelligence, kinship, and the relationships that sustain living systems.
Wolves evoke polarized emotional responses in humans; feelings of reverence, awe, and wonder on one end of the spectrum, and fear, hatred, and vilification on the other. The importance of apex predators is evident through reintroductions of wolves to areas where they were previously eliminated by bounty hunters. The healthy balance they provide for wilderness and all creatures is why I have chosen for this body of work the title Apex Healer.
These paintings are invitations to encounter wolves and wilderness as a whole as integral to the fabric of reality, rather than as static symbols on the fringe of a human-centric world. This body of work focuses on the inherent spirituality of wolves as expressed through their intelligence, familial bonds, and relationships within the ecological systems they inhabit.