Mark Dion and Bob Braine have more than 15 years experience traveling together to the American tropics. From seven week expeditions to ten day reconnoiter trips, the artists have traveled in Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula, to the interior forests of Belize, to Venezuela far up the Orinoco River on the Columbian border and most recently, on a series of trips to Guyana and up the Mazaruni River into the tapui lands of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “Lost World.” Their artworks give an impression of the diversity of landscapes and situations that were encountered in these forests of Central and South America. These photographs of the artists with a tropical spider are framed in a shadow box with steel pins and mounting forceps, evoking an entomologist’s display of insect specimens.

Courtesy of Onestar Press