I never started taking photos and drawing the things close to me until my dog Shadow got old. I think it hit me then that I needed to catalogue these things. My memory isn’t the best, so having photos helps me keep those memories closer to my chest. I’ll be posting the memorial drawings here, both of my own animals and those commissioned to me from others. I feel cataloging it is a way of honoring that memory.

I talk about the Rainbow Bridge a lot and often include it in my memorial drawings, but another thing I’ll often mention is “the meadow”. This is something that stemmed from a reoccurring dream I’ve had. Essentially a place where the animals that have passed now hang out. An endless expanse of forests and flowers, dotted with cabins and little places of rest for the people who’ve passed to hang around in too. In my mind the meadow is what you arrive at upon crossing that “rainbow bridge”.