My name is Alexandra Bowers, and I was born and raised in the Sonoran Desert. As an artist focusing on the natural world, my intention is to find ways the environment and our personal lives intersect and converse with one another. Utilizing the wood burning process technically known as pyrography, allows me to illustrate with heat the indigenous plants and animals that live within our neighborhoods and urban streets. Over the years I’ve witnessed technology and made-made structures detach us physically and psychologically from our arid surroundings. Urban sprawl has forced our habitat to either vanish or move away. As we pave, develop, and grow our urban cities, the natural environment diminishes and is forced to change and adapt to its human neighbors. My work is concerned with highlighting these beings, to bring our awareness and emotional empathy back to them before they move on, or permanently disappear.
