I Am Fascinated By the Macabre

As a child, I was always obsessed with nature. It might be a rarity now, but when my siblings and I were children, we went outside and played outside all day. I was exposed to things that many children won’t be exposed to today, like the natural deterioration of a deer’s carcass after a bear has finished feeding on it. I would find bones, skulls and minerals, and could easily spend an entire day in hot pursuit of yellow spotted salamanders, which were very common in upstate New York. I would always let them go after capturing them, but there was that satisfaction with catching them in the first place.