Vanitas#7 (Tarsier) 90×90 cm, pencil, charcoal, acrylic and oil on canvas, 2025. (Courtesy Janine Bean Gallery, Berlin.)
The Tarsier is a small, highly sensitive, nocturnal primate found in the Philippines, they are threatened by habitat loss due to deforestation. Tarsiers suffer greatly from illegal pet trade; hunters and trappers shake the animals out of their trees or chop down the branches of the trees in which they live to be captured and sold als a pet for which they are completely unsuitable, partly due to their sensitivity to light and touch.