In this series, I portray native animal and plant species from the New York City area, along with rocks and crystals we find in NYC. One of my dreams is to make a large, connected collage piece featuring as many of the city’s 1,300 species of plants and hundreds of species of animals as I can, in an effort to raise awareness of the need to protect the city’s native wildlife, and restore and replenish an ecosystem that has been around for much longer than we have been.
This series explored my personal history, and my family’s history. I pieced together old photographs of my family with scraps of fabric, paper, other odds and ends from family life, and text I had written about my life at the time.
LARISSA SIMPSON ART 