The Naturalist makes reference to Seamus Heaney’s poem, Death of a Naturalist (1966). It focuses on the first stanza in which the child encounters the natural world with openness and curiosity, before an unfiltered connection to nature is lost. In the right panel, a list of adjectives is adapted from Gerard Manley Hopkins’ rhapsodic poem, Pied Beauty (1877).

Video of this work in process at Dieu Donné studios: https://vimeo.com/944945073