Despite my inability to ever truly know what it is like to be a pigeon, a deer, or a duck, I’ve found a strange way to relate to their lives by dramatizing my encounters with them. Like them, I eat, I feel fear, I get into arguments, and I can be caught off-guard; however, I do not have wings, or a beak, or fur, or a set of antlers.

I look back at these photographs and laugh at the way I’ve satirized the lives of these creatures, but when I reflect more profoundly on why I take these pictures, I realize it’s because it feels safer to laugh at the seemingly trivial happenstances of these ingenuous creatures I’ve captured rather than think about my own ‘grander’ human problems.

We think of non-human creatures as being primitive and subject only to primal instincts; as such, by personifying them, I admit that for better or for worse, I’d sometimes like to just be an ‘animal’ too.