Hi. I'm Kevin, a biologist and nature artist who is sharing sensory and intuitive nature experiences found around us yet often existing outside our normal human perceptions. First, I spend as much time as I can out in the Florida wilderness, recording & illustrating, day and night, nature audio, visual and other nature vectors to share, for free, via Soundcloud, FreeSound, Youtube and my websites. Second, I am spreading awareness of experienceable nature just outside our normal sensory limits with hopes of creating symbiotic connections between people and nature; connections that will benefit both plants, wildlife, the cosmos and humans all together.

I do believe when people connect with Nature's art, especially through field recordings, audio and nature radio, they can be inspired to go outdoors and experience outdoor life for themselves. I also believe that once people are in the wilderness, exploring and taking in the natural healing of the earth they will want more of nature. With exposure to nature there can come appreciation for the wilds. With that appreciation comes involvement in preservation, conservation and sustainability. So much of my life's efforts are focused on encouraging appreciation for Mother Nature through my nature art. Although my body keeps unravelling (a connective tissue disorder) Mother Nature and the doctors keep me patched back together.

As a biologist I am drawn to complexities of the wilds. As a lawyer too, by education, I have come to learn that ecological awareness is much more effective than environmental regulation when trying to pass along a healthy earth to our children.

I've been drawing nature and plants since childhood and my avatar is a replication of a planet earth sketch I drew when I was six years old.

My adult work focuses on creative urban sustainability. Following law school I designed and helped construct coastal area salt and hurricane resilient green roofs such as the Breaking Ground Green Roof in Jacksonville, Florida, and Starbucks in Main Street Disney, Orlando, and also as a salt tolerant, native plant green roof consultant on the King Edwards Hospital Green Roof, Bermuda.

As my interest in native plants and ecosystematics grew so did my awareness of the power of nature. Native plants provided a career but they also provided a deep sense of peace, satisfaction and stress therapy when dealing with life's unexpected twists and turns.

In 2011 I experienced an unexpected aortic dissection, an event where my aorta tore from it's root in my heart down through my chest and abdomen into my legs. I can only describe what happened like being hit in the back and head with a baseball bat and feeling like a huge zipper opening inside my body. Several complex surgeries later I began life all over, from learning to walk to managing speech, memory and pain challenges. Unbeknownst to me at the time, the genetic based connective tissue disorder was familial. It wasn't until one of my doctors explained to me my dissection was due to my body's DNA structure that I had any idea why over the years I'd struggled with a variety of physical misfortunes. As part of my involvement with connective tissue awareness the Washington Post published a short article on my aortic dissection and search for medical answers.

As if aortic dissection were not enough to deal with, in 2020 I was diagnosed with a cancerous tumor on my left kidney. Because of the blood thinners I am on for my aorta I was challenged with consequential internal bleeding after the tumor removal operation. Coping with all these maladies left me mired in PTSD until I found adventure, purpose, meaning and joy in nature art, inspired by time spent in wildlife refuges and state parks.

Today I am totally a nature artist. Hiking in nature has been one of my most effective recovery therapies over the years, and I walk in parks, along the beaches, in the swamps and just about anywhere Mother Nature invites.

And so my relationship with native plants inspired a decade long journey of intimate study and appreciation for colors, textures, scents, sounds and ecology filling Mother Nature's creative nature art palette. When I could not do much but lay and rest, I'd listen, imagine, record and draw.

I am posting new material most days. Nature and art has given me so much healing. Though the doctors often joke that I should not be alive and those words sting, I find a redeeming peace in the hues, textures & sounds of Gaia. My intent is to keep sharing the sounds and beauty of Mother Nature.

Thank you for your interest and patronage in helping me share the sounds, textures, colors and all the wonders of the natural world.

Best, Kevin Songer, Tallahassee, Florida.