The drawing investigates the leopard’s remarkable capacity to adapt to shifting environments and to persist amid the pressures of urbanization and climate change. It forms part of a broader inquiry into altered animal behaviors and species vulnerability in the Anthropocene. I am particularly interested in how species develop adaptive strategies in direct response to human influence, and how these interactions reveal both subtle and absurd points of collision between human activity and the natural world.
The work foregrounds the tensions, fears, and disturbances that arise when the boundaries between the urban and the wild collapse. It raises questions about which species ultimately enacts destruction, and how our assumptions about the “laws of nature” shape our understanding of adaptation, survival, and coexistence.