Nature is Full of Patterns—And This One Deserves Your Attention

Patterns. They’re everywhere. In the clouds, in the waves, in the branches of trees. My monkey mind is always on the lookout for them, eager to dissect and rearrange nature into something new. And that’s how I ended up with my Queen Charlotte Goshawk wallpaper—because why not take a rare and fascinating bird and turn it into an endless, hypnotic pattern?

This bird of prey is a subspecies of the Northern Goshawk, found in the coastal rainforests of British Columbia and southeastern Alaska. It’s a master of the skies, cutting through dense canopies with a precision that makes fighter jets look clumsy. And yet, like so many magnificent creatures, it’s threatened. Habitat loss is the usual suspect, as we humans continue our relentless quest to turn every last scrap of wilderness into something more, well… profitable.

This is where my wallpaper series takes flight (pun absolutely intended). I’ve always loved the idea of introducing uncommon animals into your everyday environment, not by caging them, but by turning them into something as common as wallpaper. Imagine sipping your morning coffee, surrounded by the intense, piercing gaze of the Queen Charlotte Goshawk. You’d be sharing space with a creature most people have never even heard of—raising awareness without saying a word.

My hope is that by making these creatures impossible to ignore, they become harder to forget. Art has a way of sneaking past apathy, sliding into the subconscious where it festers into curiosity. And curiosity, is the first step toward giving a damn. If a person stares at this goshawk pattern long enough, maybe they’ll start to wonder about the bird itself. Maybe they’ll learn about its struggle. Maybe they’ll care enough to help protect it.

Or maybe they’ll just think the pattern looks cool, which is also fine. I’ll take what I can get.

Either way, I’ll keep turning nature into patterns, and patterns into art, because I can’t help myself. My monkey mind demands it. And if, along the way, that art makes even one person pause long enough to care about an uncommon animal, then I’d say that’s a win.