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Bluesky 

Cloudy with a Chance of 31,960,000 Creatures 

The natural world has been a source of inspiration and reverence for me for as long as I can remember. One of the ways I engage with this love is speculative biology as it is a mental and creative activity that engages with my knowledge of animals and provides an opportunity for me to learn more.

Expanding on an assignment in Animals and Portraiture class here at MECA, Cloudy with a Chance of 31,960,000 Creatures is a repeatable creative exercise utilizing random chance via dice roll to generate a unique combo from a list of 800 hand picked creatures and 100 prompts for the participant to extrapolate off of. The animals chosen for the list where picked under the convention of avoiding the holotypes of more widely known animals or those that exhibit interesting physical or ecological characteristics with the goal of introducing the participant to some of the incredible forms life has taken on our planet.

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I’m an illustrator and photographer currently based in Portland, Maine. My focus is on biology, environmentalism, and speculative evolution.


The natural world is of great inspiration to my work. It holds a certain level of reverence to me that I try to capture in the pieces I make, as well as be a source to extrapolate off of to create something narratively interesting and biologically feasible within the realm of fiction.


My goal is to spark interest and empathy in life beyond ourselves, whether that be through documenting the intricate beings we share a planet with or exploring the extraordinary possibilities of what could be through illustration.