Christian Gronau likes “all animals and certain people.” He painted the HABITAT cards in the peace and quiet of the the Canadian backwoods, where he lives in a handmade wooden house.
After studying geology in Germany, Christian ventured to less-travelled parts of the world. He and Aileen Douglas, who had left her native Scotland on a similar quest, found a home together halfway between the saltwater tides and a beaver pond on a small island off the coast of British Columbia, Canada.
Twenty years of living in nature has intensified Christian’s sensitivity toward the myriad other-than-human forms of life, a sensitivity that often seems little known by the majority of the human denizens of today’s mechanised, industrialised world. The HABITAT cards are a natural expression of Christian’s concerns about human responsibility.
