California Dream’n; Nux-Vomica Arctos

This 60” x 56” acrylic mixed-media painting, is about the forced extinction and eradication of large scale predators in the United States of America. The work centers around the California Grizzly bear, which was driven to extinction in the early 20th century. Poisons like Strychnine were used to effectively kill off all large predators in the US in the interest of agricultural development and westward expansion.