Red-Tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis)
Plains Cottonwood (Populus deltoides monilifera)
Coyote (Canis latrans)
Blue Grama (Bouteloua gracilis)
Colorado Hairstreak (Hypaurotis crysalus)
Western Painted Turtle (Chrysemys picta bellii)
Colorado Blue Columbine (Aquilegia coerulea)
Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)
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'Creatures of Colorado’ traffic box wrap was created through a collage-based process, translating cut, layered, and recomposed imagery into a unified vector composition. Each animal is placed in relationship to the others, forming a small ecology around the surface, water, earth, and sky meeting in a shared field. Mammals, insects, birds, plants, and lizards coexist here, not as isolated symbols but as interdependent beings.
It recognizes the multiple anniversaries that are occurring for the United States of America, the state of Colorado, and the city of Centennial.
These are a mix of personal favorites and state creatures; creatures I’ve long admired with the potential to create a vivid scene in this format. Having lived my entire life along the Continental Divide on the Colorado Plateau, I am continually shaped by this landscape and the regional, ecological, biological, geographic ,and cultural diversities that converge in this colorful magical place.
bio
Noah Travis Phillips is an experimental collage artist working with their private media archive of “made, found, and modified” images to interrelate the personal, mythological, occult, cultural, and ecological. Their practice explores the posthuman and the Anthropocene through a range of digital and physical formats. In tandem, they aim to subtly insert themselves into art history by cultivating a personal legend or parafiction.
They are an artist, educator, and scholar. (BA, Naropa University, Fine Art and Environmental Studies; MFA, University of Denver, Emergent Digital Practices). They are Assistant Professor & FabLab (Z-Space) Coordinator at Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design. They have exhibited extensively locally, nationally, internationally, and virtually.