“While walking in the woods last winter, my dog and I would often come around a bend and find ourselves face to face with some animal – maybe a squirrel, a deer, a rabbit, or a fox. Since no one felt threatened we all had the luxury of being curious. We’d stand there and study each other – sometimes for a few seconds, but other times for many minutes. These accidental encounters always stayed with me – “hello, what is it like to be you?”. 

In these prints I thought more about these inter-species encounters. I imagined myself a cow or a shore bird, coming into someone else’s territory. I meet one of the locals. We think about each other and wonder how it is to be something other than yourself.”

~ Cheryl Agulnick Hochberg