Grand Cave Penguin

I was the most surprised artist on my block when a waddle of penguins showed up in my studio in mid-2012. ("Waddle" is the correct collective noun for a group of penguins on land.)

They came with a variety of problems and issues, notable the sharp decline in the quality of their favorite fish (almost every fish), and what they presciently described as the "Snow Problem." Climate change was apparent to them long before humans paid attention.

The Cave Penguins came to Minnesota long ago. Out of respect for their pals, the Pandas who guard the Hidden Bamboo Forest of Saint Paul, they call the crossing between Asia and America as the "Bearing Strait." A very few stayed in Minnesota. Most headed farther north or trekked very far south.

On heavy art paper. Unframed.