 Thalken describes this technique as a means to not only “dematerialize the animal in order to convey its spiritual nature,” but also to suggest “the duality of life and death and the uncertainty that lies between.”

"Fragments of An Elegy"

Photographed over the course of five years, these images primarily reference the annual alligator harvests of coastal regions of southern Louisiana and North Florida.The work explores issues of mortality, cycles of life and human-animal hierarchies.The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

The Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL

The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, GA

The Bunnen Collection, Atlanta, GA

Yale University Library, New Haven, CT

Dean, Ringers, Morgan and Lawton, Orlando, FL

Georgia Perimeter College, Clarkston, GA

Francisco, J.