Daniella Napolitano’s work is based on her detailed observations of animals and plants in her urban environments. Napolitano explores the complicated relationships between humans and the natural world in these settings and shares the information in what she calls a “popular”rather than “scientific” form. Her visual narratives incorporate factual drawings but with a whimsical, witty approach to animal and human behavior. Her early pieces, before moving to Phoenix for graduate school, are image-based experiments with book formats. Her more recent works combine her own text with her printed drawings and this information is often gathered using a conceptual, organizing framework. Her books and zines are beautifully drawn, designed, dyed, printed and bound, taking different formats and folds. She utilizes the aesthetic qualities of intaglio and relief printing and the intimacy of the book to capture factual representations as well as express personal and emotional responses to the natural.

Website: DaniellaNapolitano.com