J. Christopher

For more than two decades I have been a professional in environmental science, focused on the conservation of biodiversity across the greater metropolitan landscape of New York City. I did not fall into my profession. I was called to it following the events of 9/11. When I was literally challenged to create something that could help heal us all. I figured that “something” would have to be born of the natural world.

Two decades later and I am still trying to create that something. That something that could heal us all. But that is about to change.

New Leaf Art Lab is an opportunity to shift the paradigm of how we connect ourselves to nature. Yes, it is about art. Yes, it is about awareness. With your help, New Leaf Art Lab will be about using our collective power and focusing it on something that can heal us all.

It is my hope that, through organic visual stimuli, we can go beyond making art for purely aesthetic, political, or emotional response. But make art that is purely for the benefit of nature.

Your nature. My nature. Their nature. Our nature.