"My work embodies ideas stemming from the reproduction of life. It seems to me that all beings reproduce in a similar fashion. There is a system of traveling egg, fertilization and nesting common to all life. It is this process that fuels my thoughts while I paint. Eggs travel through tubes, oceans and even ride the wind to land softly in a womb, to be received by the soil or rest nested in a rocky river bed. I find that common thread fascinating and comforting. Sometimes the process seems recklessly haphazard and other times a carefully calculated science of survival. While working on these pieces, I often find myself lost in thoughts of a macrobiotic world of cellular division, but then stop to ponder, " Is this a painting of the birth of an embryo or a planet?" and I am not sure if there is a difference.

I hope my work reflects to its viewers my reverence for life. We live in an era of awareness. We know our actions as a people have consequences to all life on this fertile gift of a world. I truly believe life on Earth will persevere through this human onslaught. I'm not so sure we as a species will. It is time for stepping back and taking a look at the big picture that is now asking us if we can live and let live."

Kerstin Davis