Angela Caballero-Fields

 

We live in a shrinking world due to increased communication, travel, and technology. We are blessed with the opportunity to embed ourselves in the cultures of our Earth and learn to appreciate its inhabitants. At the same time, however, we are also more impactful on the positive and negative effects we have on Earth neighbors, and they have on us. Climate Change and the pandemic of 2020 are two examples.

Our fragility cannot be more evident than in the susceptibility of the desert. As an interdependent ecosystem, flowers and bugs need each other to survive.  They are beautiful at all their stages. The caterpillar (as the precursor to the butterfly), the butterfly, the scorpion, the lizard… Our effects on these ecosystems are __________ (you fill the blank). Climate change is having devastating effects on them too.

My collection focuses on the wildflowers of our Nevadan desert and an insect, reptile or arachnid that supports it, sustains by it, or keeps its enemies at bay. Wildflowers and desert life, as resilient as they appear to be, are fragile. Enjoy them, protect them. What we do, will determine whether they will continue to propagate and reproduce.

My name is Angela Caballero-Fields. I started painting during the Pandemic of 2020 to cope with the isolation of the times. I have found that art is speech, and as I learn, I am seeking to become more articulate and share my voice.