Light Lives as an Animal is a body of night paintings rooted in the forests of the Catskills, where native plants and animals emerge through darkness guided by instinct, memory, and subtle illumination. She paints observation, intuition, and lived experience, attending to the ways light behaves beyond utility, moonlight fire, bioluminescent suggestion, reflect glow, and spiritual or imagined sources. In these paintings, light is not passive; it moves, hides, startles, and watches, behaving as a living presence rather than a fixed phenomenon. Flora and fauna become both subjects and witnesses, existing in a charged nocturnal space where visibility is partial and perception is heightened. The work explores night as a site of vulnerability, reverence, and transformation, honoring the unseen rhythms of the Catskills Landscape and the quiet intelligence that animates it after dark.