Laurel Roth Hope is a full time, self-taught artist and naturalist who lives and works in Northern California.  Prior to devoting herself to art she worked as a park ranger and in natural resource conservation. She has called herself “an artist that wishes she was a scientist”, which is reflected in her work. She began crocheting “Biodiversity Reclamation Suits for Urban Pigeons†as a comic relief from the overwhelming subject of environment and extinction. She sculpts and casts pigeons from resin and crochets suits of extinct bird’s plumage. On National Geographic she explains the following: Â
“The suits act like a cozy, covering up something we don’t want to see—environmental degradation and species extinction—with something arguably more attractive.â€
The artist works with other mediums as well which can be seen on her website, Facebook and Instagram.
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