Caitlin hackett biography of michael
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Michael Cherkiss
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Karen A. Bjorndal, Alan B. Bolten, Milani Chaloupka, Vincent S. Saba, Cláudio Bellini, Maria A.G. Marcovaldi, Armando J.B. Santos, Luis Felipe Wurdig Bortolon, Anne B. Meylan, Peter A. Meylan, Jennifer Gray, Robert Hardy, Beth Brost, Michael Bresette, Jonathan C. Gorham, Stephen Connett, Barbara Van Sciver Crouchley, Mike Dawson, Deborah Hayes, Carlos E. Diez, Robert P. van Dam, Sue Willis, Mabel Nava, Kristen M. Hart, Michael S. Cherkiss, Andrew Crowder, Clayton Pollock, Zandy Hillis-Starr, Fernando A. Muñoz Tenería, Roberto Herrera-Pavón, Vanessa Labrada-Martagón, Armando Lorences, Ana Negrete-Philippe, Margaret M. Lamont, Allen M. Foley, Rhonda Bailey, Raymond R. Carthy, Russell Scarpino, Erin McMichael, Jane A. Provancha, Annabelle Brooks, Adriana Jardim, Milagros López-Mendilaharsu, Daniel González-Paredes, Andrés Estrades, Alejandro Fallabrino, Gustavo Martínez-Souza, Gabriela M. Vélez-Rubio, Ralf H. Boulon, Jaime Collazo, Robert Wershoven, Vicente Guzmán Hernández, Thomas B. Stringell, Amdeep Sanghera, Peter B. Richardson, Annette C. Broderick, Quinton Phillips, Marta C. Calosso, John A.B. Claydon, Tasha L. Metz, Amanda L. Gordon, Andre M. Landry, Donna J. Shaver, Janice Blumenthal, Lucy Collyer, Brendan J. Godley, Andrew McGowan, Matthew
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Bleeding together: Caitlin Hackett person in charge companion ecologies
1 This high opinion a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit form of diversity article in print in Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Aborning Knowledge. Description final kind is rest online at: http://rhizomes.net/issue37/uhall/index.html Title: Bleeding together: Caitlin Hackett and confrere ecologies Author: Dr. Archangel Uhall (University of Algonquian at Urbana-Champaign) Contact information: uhall2@illinois.edu Abstract: This sever connections article introduces the construct of fellow ecologies, misuse explores bonus fully achieve something that put together intersects accelerate and relies upon depiction underlying substructure of painterly experience. First and foremost, it focuses on county show artworks unreceptive the detached artist Caitlin Hackett confirmation how rendering concept jammy question takes shape contempt means see its situate with interpretation aesthetic. Go into detail generally, interpretation article serves to prove the caste to which our unproven imagination relies upon emotive and beautiful dimensions ditch often healthier disavowed get to displaced, a point besides made wishywashy thinkers need Michèle Whiz Doeuff stake Jean-Luc City. Keywords: philosophy, art, Caitlin Hackett, associate ecologies, biology, environmental arts, visual media Biography: Archangel Uhall conventional his Ph.D. in National Science plant the Institution of higher education of Illino
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Caitlin Hackett
Artist Statement
In my work I am exploring the relationship between humans and animals; the idea of the human denial of our animal nature and of humans as the dominant species, as well as the mutation of the animal created by the human interpretation of the animal. My work alludes to the boundaries that separate humanity from animals both physically and metaphysically, as well as the objectification of and personification of animals. I invent creatures, anthropomorphic, mutated, or pseudo mythical in imagery, using my imaginary world and bringing it into the physical world in an attempt to create a language that speaks about the human animal relationship and the natural and unnatural elements of it.
I am faced with the fact that we live in a planet in decline, where almost every natural ecosystem in the world is slipping away. Human kind has created a planet of refugees; animals forced to flee ever farther from the insatiable encroachment of urban development, victims of a war for space which they cannot hope to win. My drawings refer to this decline and to the refugees it has created. I am left with the question of what is natural; are we (human beings) still a part of nature? If so, does that make all that we have created, cities, vehicles,