From 1995 through 2002, Carol Yarrow spent long stretches of time in Chiapas, Mexico, living among Lacandon Mayan villagers in a town called Nahá. There, deep within mahogany forests that have subsequently been clear-cut, she got to know Mayan families as tourism, technology, logging and religious evangelism encroached on their way of life.... [http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-23191-carol-yarrow-i-one-mahogany-left-standing-i.html] ...The symbolism is even more direct in the still life Chan Bor Will With Cat. That print shows a child in shadow, contemplating a kitten and a flower that are bathed in a dramatic shaft of light. The cat's fur and delicate limbs are thrown into immaculate relief, as are the flower's petals. What could be more unspeakably vulnerable than a child, a kitten, a flower? Nothing, Yarrow implies, except perhaps for an entire culture on the cusp of extinction. [http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-23191-carol-yarrow-i-one-mahogany-left-standing-i.html]