WHERE THE WILD REMAINS

Where the Wild Remains explores the experience of animals in captivity and the complex relationship between care, observation, and confinement. Through painting, photography, cyanotypes, found material, and installation, the project considers what it means to encounter wild animals within spaces constructed for human viewing. Rather than directly illustrating the effects of captivity, the paintings use atmosphere, cropping, gesture, and fragmented imagery to create a quieter sense of unease. Animals appear suspended within environments that are simultaneously protective and restrictive, raising questions around our desire to observe, preserve, and remain close to the wild.

Alongside the paintings, museological table displays bring together photographs taken at zoos, displayed in the form of cyanotypes, painting studies and gelli plate prints beneath glass. These tables operate somewhere between an archive, a research space, and a museum collection. The glass becomes both a method of preservation and another barrier, echoing the physical separation between the viewer and animal within the zoo.

Together, the works examine captivity not simply as a physical condition, but as a system of looking, collecting, and displaying the wild.