Culpeo (Lycalopex culpaeus) are wild canines who thrive along the spine of the South Andes into Patagonia. While commonly associated with fox because of their size and bushy tails, culpeo are not of the vulpes family and are more closely related to wolves. Animals adapt in different ways to colonial interruptions of the landscape. When hares brought by Europeans went feral, culpeo benefited from the new and plentiful source of protein. Their populations have grown alongside the foreign hares.

This series of monotypes were created during at printmaking residency at Proyecto ‘ace in Buenos Aries, after investigating Acequia that have created the oasis of Mendoza out of the dry, Zonda-parched eastern slope of the South Andes. Cutouts of Culpeo are stenciled or layered as chine-colle atop of fotolito prints of an old map of Mendoza, aerials of acequia-fed farmland surrounding the city, and collaged to a photo of an abandoned headgate above Blanca, Spain (taken while in residence with AADK)