It’s challenging for me to find the right words for this series. Do i open with the deep connection I have to the energy of death? Or do I start where this all began - on my morning commutes?

This series is very meaningful to me; the last thing I want to do is discredit it. I believe this idea gravitated to me and asked to be expressed.

And we agreed, so I brought it to life.

At first though, I hesitated. Blood is easy to make into something cheesy, but more than that, it felt bigger than me.

I have always been really bothered by seeing killed animals on the sides of the road. It’s not that they’re passively dead - it’s that someone decided their life wasn’t worth stopping or slowing down for.

Actually, there have been a few studies that show some people swerve on purpose to hit animals on or by the roads (for anyone wondering, yes it’s typically trucks and large SUV’s).

This enrages me. I’m not sure how I’m drawing this connection, but this feels to me like an extension of patriarchal violence to the most useless degree.

Why does no one clean them up? What do the other animals think when they see their kind killed and left to rot by the road? Do the other birds miss the ones who didnt make it? Is there an animal out there growing up without a mom now?

….and why. Why would anyone do this.

Why would you do this.

All I wanted was for other people to care as much as I do about the dead animals in the road. I wanted to make them beautiful enough to be granted the dignity of being looked at, or even thought of.

In my wildest dreams, I’m always on the side of the road with a shovel and a tulip bulb, eager to give their body rest, and their soul a second chance to bloom. In reality, we would be one dead animal trying to bury another if I wasn’t carrying a g*n.

Does that not specifically seem like violence of a patriarchal nature?

My hope is this series can help recalibrate the value assignments we give to our daily mundane tasks. Something as simple as a commute would be a lot more enjoyable if it wasn’t littered with animal bodies - and each of us can help make that happen.

We can all choose to handle our road rage, our discontent, the frustration we have at needing to drive into work, and anything else we face internally that would drive someone to kill.

In a world like that, there’s no need to wonder: “hmm….what else would these people kill if they could?”.

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