Alexandra Bowers was born and raised in the Sonoran Desert. Over the years growing up in the desert she has learned first-hand how easy it is to disassociate with what exists naturally just beyond our backyard walls, city scapes, and developments. Technology, automobiles, and man-made structures all help to detach us, physically and psychologically, from our arid surroundings. Bower’s artwork challenges this norm.

Bowers has practiced the art of pyrography, the process of free handed drawing into word with burn marks resulting from the controlled application of a heated object, since 2010. She’s careful to chose subjects she emotionally connects with that have evolved to survive in an extremely harsh climate, and human encroachment. Much like a photograph, her subjects are captured in a specific state of life, through pyrography, a poetic and tragic parallel to the environment they are forced to adapt to in order to exist.

In addition to pyrography, Bower’s has expanded her mediums to include traditional drawing materials, watercolor, and installation. Throughout all mediums and presentations, her work highlights these fragile, living organisms, to bring awareness back to them and spark consideration in the viewer before they move on, or disappear.