"Stewardship" is from the body of work “Sanctuary", which uses imagery of large flat silhouettes of architectural structures, often churches and houses filled in with atmospheric color fields and environments paired with an animal breaking the plane between the positive and negative space along the edge of the silhouetted shapes. Imagery in this series is meant to address themes of how environment creates and shapes our identity and our understanding of others identity. In this piece, a hammerhead shark is removed from it’s natural habitat and placed outside of the silhouette of a church painted with a gradient blue referencing the depths of the ocean as sunlight moves away from the surface. In this piece we see a hammerhead shark, one of the more aggressive sharks in our local coastal environments can been interpreted as a threatening species to us, however the hammerhead shark fulfills it’s designed purpose as a predator and scavenger to balance it’s ecosystem.